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Joyous entrance







Notice the proud flag of an independent nation.


His grandfather Joan Morell Gilabert helped hoist it high, not on the ramparts of the impressive castle (as it would later fly there often enough, hoisted this time by daring Lleidatan rebels against fascism,) but across the river, at the top of the main mast of the schooner of which he was the captain at the time.


Captain of the Catalonian Army, a valiant strapping young man then of 34.





down the hatch: