The Harvesters' War
Catalonia's hymn comes from a romance which tells the harvesters'story.
This war originated because of a conflict in Catalonia.It was the centralised policy of the Austrian monarchs.It happened from 1640 to 1652,because Catalonia refused to participate in the imperialist castilian policity.France and Austria were at war,and the Castilians occupied Catalonia to defend their frontiers.The mercenaries took advantage of the peasants, and Catalonia asked help from France.They wanted the French to expell those mercenaries.After expelling them, the French occupied Catalonia and did the same as the mercenaries had done before to the Catalan population. Another war begun and only a few of the mercenaries survived. The Castilians took the chance to reconquer Catalonia under the condition of respecting their laws and institutions.