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At dawn, the September 11, 1714, the army attacked the French and the Spanish city of Barcelona. More than 40,000 men in the army were united against a small army of 10,000 was defending Catalan city. Had a considerable advantage by the defense in the 18th century warfare, however, and was forced to the big guns allies to focus on Barcelona sindasp from mid-July until September before there was enough damage to the city walls the attack. Among the soldiers in through the gaps réab four Irish regiment in the French service sindasp - Dillon regiments, Lee, Berwick and Bourke. 'Wild Geese' was the soldiers and James Sarsfield (1693-1719), Earl of Lucan and one son Patrick Sarsfield, one of the officers wounded in fierce fighting. Approximately 10,000 of the attackers and the defenders 6,000 killed or wounded before sindasp the Catalans conceded around sindasp four o'clock in the afternoon.
It was the final battle in the War of the Spanish sindasp Succession - a war which began in 1701 when dying Carlos II, king of Spain, sindasp without an heir. Two existing claimants: Philippe duc of Anjou, sindasp grandson of Louis XIV of France, who claimed the crown by Felipe V title with French support; and the Archduke Karl, brother of the Emperor Joseph I, the crown claimed the title of Carlos III with the support of the Austrian, British, Dutch and Portuguese. Supported most of Spain Felipe V - which was in line with the will made by Carlos II - but were worried the purposes related to Felipe Corona Aragón continue the same policy was the Bourbons in France and that It would only make the centralized state of Spain. sindasp Although Aragon and Castille united crowns since married los Reyes Católicos - Fernando II and Isabel I - in the 15th century, kept the four territory involving Aragón Corona (ie. The Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands and Aragon) control systems and its own laws after agreeing the gcorónacha and saw them prefer the chance to have their liberties sindasp would be preserved if the claimant wins Austrian.
Became sindasp a reality after virtue Felipe V when he announced the Nueva Planta ('new sindasp policy') for Catalonia in 1716: the abolition of parliament sindasp of Catalonia (les Corts) and its executive committee (la Generalitat), sindasp the only Spanish as an official language would henceforth and the Catalonia would permeate the united kingdom of Spain - in line with or Andalucía Castilla. It would be superfluous to say that the same place at Barcelona siege in the history of Catalonia and breaking Aughrim in Ireland's history, while the memory is improved by the Catalans at mbriseadhsan. In fact, the September 11 diada Nacional (national day) of Catalonia.
It is at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1901, organized the first memorial on 11 September in Barcelona. The event grew in subsequent years but were forbidden during the diada dictatorship of Primo Rivera (1923-30). Approved sindasp the national day again when Spain was a republic (1931-39), when the Catalonia autonomy was for the first time from 1714 onwards. A ban on the national day again under Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-75), who banned all aspects of Catalan identity. But the thing that goes well, loses its: from mid 1960 turned out small demonstrations nationalists organized the national day each year. Is at the head of this illegal demonstration in 1971 heard the national anthem, Els Segadors ('autumn harvesting'), sung at a public event in Catalonia for the first time in over thirty years. Spanish government approved the commemoration ceremony of the year 1976; The following year, the September 11, 1977, walked more than a million people through the streets of Barcelona as they support the claim that the Generalitat was restored, self-regulatory government of Catalonia, which occurred in 1979.
The rally of the year 1977 the biggest ever until 11 September this year when taking about a half million Catalan participated in march. Not self-regulatory government claimed they were this time, however, but independence from Spain. The slogan 'Catalunya, nou estat of Europa' ('Catalonia, new state of Europe') to read advertisements being carried by the crowd and the estelada (flag of independence similar to the traditional banner, the senyera, plus blue triangle and star) with fe