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Thesiege of Oudewater was an event during theEighty Years' War that took place in the Dutch town ofOudewater, culminating in theOudewater Massacre ((in Dutch)Oudewaterse moord).[1][2] The siege by Spanish troops started on 19 July 1575 and ended on 7 August 1575, when the town was taken by storm and plundered.[3]
In 1568 agarrison of the Spanish Army was stationed in Oudewater. On 19 June 1572 Adriaen van Swieten, a nobleman and deputy ofWilliam of Orange, entered the town with a small number of troops and convinced it to join theDutch Revolt againstPhilip II of Spain.[4][5]
The siege by Spanish troops under command ofstadtholderGillis van Berlaymont started on 19 July 1575 and ended in a bloodbath on 7 August 1575. Many of the inhabitants were put to the sword, and some citizens set their own houses on fire to spite looters, leading to a major conflagration. In total, as many as half the inhabitants of the town may have died.[6]
In 1615 theStates of Holland authorised pensions to the 300 survivors of the massacre then still living, the last payments on which were made in 1664.[7] An annual commemoration of the massacre was instituted in 1608. It is now held each year on the first Sunday on or after 7 August.[8]
^Kuijpers, Erika; Pollmann, Judith; Müller, Johannes; et al., eds. (2013).Memory Before Modernity : Practices of Memory in early modern Europe. Leiden: Brill. pp. 191–192.ISBN9789004261242.
^Duffy, Christopher (1996).Siege Warfare : The Fortress in the early modern World 1494–1660 (New ed.). London: Routledge. p. 72.ISBN978-0415146494.
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