Rafael Casanova
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Rafael Casanova i Comes (Moià, Spain, 1660 - Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain, May, 3 of 1743) was lawyer and Conseller en Cap of the Consell de Cent of Barcelona and is considered nowadays as one of the greatest Catalan patriots.
He was the Colonel of La Coronela, a self-defense armed force of the city of Barcelona at the beginnings of the 18th century. He played a crucial role during all the Siege of Barcelona, especially on September 11 of 1714, when he led the last Catalan charge to defend the city of Barcelona from the Franco-Spanish army of the Bourbonic pretender to the throne Philip V, Duke of Anjou.
After the subsequent crushing defeat, he went into hiding. He was finally granted pardon, dying at his home in 1743.
[edit] See also
- Principality of Catalonia
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- Consell de Cent
- La Coronela
- War of the Spanish Succession
- National Day of Catalonia
- General Moragues
