Map of the port of OSTENDA - Ostend (Oostende / Ostende), Belgium circa 1618. The Siege of Ostend, 1601 to 1604, of which it was said that "the Spanish assailed the unassailable and the Dutch defended the indefensible", cost 80,000 dead or wounded, making it the single bloodiest battle of the Eighty Years' War. A truce followed but the result was that the port became a haven for pirates (Dunkirkers) and privateers. x

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