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British treachery, Philip V’s obsession with subjugating the Catalan people, the military weakness of Charles of Austria and the disappearance of the emperor of the Germanic empire, Joseph I, are some of the causes that explain how the Catalan defeat of 1714 was so tremendous. In this issue of Sàpiens, at newsagents from 20th September, top experts examine all sides of the conflict that started as a dynastic struggle to occupy the Spanish throne and ended up escalating to a full-fledged world war. To celebrate its fifth birthday, the magazine comes with a free gift: the comic Barcelona 1714, a work of Oriol Garcia Quera, which lets you visualise the epic confrontation between the powerful Franco-Spanish alliance and the tenacious Catalan resistance at the Barcelona city gates.
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