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JACA 1930 - PUPPETEER Binefar -

03/04/1909 Emotive representation of Jaca in 1930 Uprising

Fermín Galán was born in San Fernando de Cádiz in 1899. He studied at the College of Orphans of War Guadalajara and then the Infantry Academy. In 1919 he joined the English forces fighting in the Rif, was wounded in 1924 when he was a lieutenant of the Legion, in the Town of Xeruta (by this action he was awarded the posthumous title Laura OC September 8 1934.) Transferred to the military hospital Carabanchel, during his convalescence began to be interested in politics and writes a novel about the war in Africa, "organized barbarism", which attacks the General Primo de Rivera. Because it is processed by a court-martial, sentenced to several years in prison and imprisoned in the Castle of Montjuic, where he wrote a political essay titled "New Creation." After three years in prison, after the fall of Primo de Rivera, is released and accepted a destination in Galicia Regiment No. 19 in Jaca (Huesca), and as captain. Man clearly revolutionary ideal, close to anarchism and utopian socialism, liaises with the Local Rovolucionario Committee and the Provisional Government of the Republic, agreeing with the conspiracy that he prepared, being a leading member of the Masonic Lodge of the Grand English Orient. On the morning of December 12, 1930, three days ahead to date, with the possibility that the captain general of Aragon take steps to prevent other regiments involved could take action on December 15, Captain Fermín Galán, together with the captains Ángel García Hernández and Luis Salinas, revolts in Jaca, leading forces of Galicia Regiment No. 9, the Mountain Hunters battalion La Palma n º 8 and walk Artillery Regiment No. 5 and an unknown number of civilians. The government sent many troops to suppress the rebels are defeated at a place near the Shrine of Cillas (Huesca). The main culprits are caught and had Fermín Galán great chance of fleeing, is supplied to avoid reprisals against their peers. On 14 December, insurgents officers undergo a court-martial. Fermín Galán, Ángel García Hernández, who have maintained throughout the process a dignified and courageous, they are condemned to death and the rest of his teammates to life imprisonment. That same day, despite it being Sunday, the condemned are executed and through the Red Gate of Glory, leaving history to enter the Caption. Alberti created a play in honor of Fermín Galán and the rebels of Jaca that starts with a few verses of Antonio Machado:
"The spring has an arm venidodel capitán.Niñas, sung in chorus: Fermín Galán Viva! "