Sea Beggars
rebels who opposed Spanish rule in the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War
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When were the Sea Beggars?
The Sea Beggars were pirates who made a living in the 1560s from capturing North Sea shipping. On 1 April 1572, six hundred Sea Beggars seized by surprise the small harbor city of Brill.