#maulets

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2000s poster directed at tourists who visit Catalonia, issued by the leftist-independentist youth organization Maulets.

Source: Maulets, jovent independentista revolucionari.

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For years, having this sea snail was a death sentence.

The Charonia lampas (in Catalan, corn rugós) is the biggest sea snail of the Mediterranean. In the 18th century, it was used as a battle horn by the maulets, which were groups of armed civilians in the Valencian Country who fought for the rights of the agricultural workers against the the nobility and against the Spanish invasion of Valencia.

In 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Valencian Country was occupied by Castille (Spain), as it still remains nowadays. In the years following this defeat, anyone who was found to have this shell at home was suspicious of having been a maulet and, so, executed.

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Dibuix que recrea idealment en Joan Baptista Basset, heroi valencià de la guerra de Successió (1701–1715) que fou capdavanter dels Maulets i general de l'exèrcit austriacista. Entre altres fets, ajudà el batalló de catalans que varen ajudar l'exèrcit anglès a prendre Gibaltar el 1704, i el 26 de maig de 1706 alliberà Xàtiva, que havia estat ocupada per les forces borbòniques.

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