The (Staggering) Siege of Antwerpen 1584/85 | Eighty Years' War

On the 3rd of July 1584 during the Eighty Years' War, a Spanish army under the Duke of Parma arrived in the region of Antwerpen. This was the beginning of a siege, so spectacular that the famous German poet Friedrich Schiller wrote a historical account about it. It was a siege characterized by a monstrous warship, the flooding of an entire region and ingenious siege craft such as huge fireships and a pontoon bridge spanning more than 700 meters across the River Schelde. This is how contemporary historiography tells the story of the staggering siege of Antwerpen:
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Bibliography:
Primary Sources:
Emanuel van Meteren, Belgische ofte Nederlantsche historie van onsen tijden, Delft 1599.
Secondary Literature:
Duffy, C., The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, London 1979.
Geyl, P., The Revolt of the Netherlands (1555-1609), New York 1958.
Nimwegen, O. van, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, Woodbridge 2010.
Schiller, F., Merkwürdige Belagerung von Antwerpen 1584-1585, in: Schiller, F. (Hg.), Die Horen 5 (1795).