Siege of Alkmaar
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siege-of-alkmaar-164-1615422
title:
Siege of Alkmaar
text:
The siege of Alkmaar (1573) was a turning point in the Eighty Years' War. The burghers of the Dutch city of Alkmaar held off the Spanish between 21 August and 8 October 1573, with boiling tar and burning branches from their renewed city walls. On 23 September William the Silent followed up on a request by Cabeliau dating from the beginning of the siege and ordered the dikes surrounding Alkmaar to be breached, thereby flooding the polders in which the Spanish troops were camped, like the Achterme
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description:
1573 battle of the Eighty Years' War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Alkmaar
date created:
2006-10-16T09:57:47Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T15:15:16Z
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