Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tawayen farko ya faru ne a 1573, tare da sojojin da aka biya su a karshe tare da florins 60 kowannensu, wasu tawaye guda biyu suka biyo baya, suna dakatar da ci gaban yakin basasar Spain. An ci gaba da tayar da hankali a cikin 1575 da 1576, har zuwa mutuwar kwamandan rundunar, Requesens. Sojojin sun rushe, suna tallafawa kansu ta hanyar karɓar kuɗi da abinci daga mutanen gida <unk> an sake farfado da sabbin tawaye na Dutch, tare da babban kuka na'mutuwar Mutanen Espanya'. Sabon kwamandan a Netherlands, Don John na Austria bai iya dawo da tsari ba, wanda ya haifar da Sack of Antwerp
, wani mummunan lamari wanda gidaje 1,000 suka lalace kuma sojoji 8,000 suka kashe. Janar na Jihohi, wanda jakar ta rinjayi, ya sanya hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Ghent bayan kwana hudu kawai, yana haɗa lardunan 'yan tawaye da lardunan masu aminci tare da burin cire duk sojojin Spain daga Netherlands, da kuma dakatar da tsanantawa ga masu ridda. Wannan ya lalata duk abin da Mutanen Espanya suka cim ma a cikin shekaru goma da suka gabata. Da yake kokarin kwantar da yanayin, Don John ya cire sojojinsa na Spain daga kasar a shekara ta 1577, kafin ya sake dawo da su jim kadan bayan haka lokacin da yanayin siyasa ya sake yin muni. Lokacin da Don John ya mutu, Alexander Farnese ya maye gurbinsa a matsayin gwamna kuma ya fara daidaita manufofin Mutanen Espanya a cikin Katolika Flanders yayin da yake rage wuraren da ake kira Protestant da karfi. Wannan manufar ba ta yi nasara ba. A shekara ta 1579, sojojinsa suka kwashe Maastricht, suka kashe fararen hula fiye da 10,000.