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Pere Joán Barceló i Anguera, known as Carrasclet, was born in 1682 in the town of Capçanes, in the county of Priorat. His job was that of a charcoal burner and seller of charcoal.
In 1714, during the Bourbon occupation, many Catalans did not give up recovering their political and cultural freedoms. Carrasclet, rifle captain during the War of Succession,
He retired after the capitulation of Barcelona, ??a victim of Bourbon repression, to the population of Marçà. He settled there, a short distance from Capçanes to try out peasant life with his family. He had to hide in the Sierra de Llabería on several occasions.
In 1719 he joined the French troops fighting against Philip V. He was granted the rank of colonel and carried out numerous actions in Camp del Priorat, Campo de Tarragona, Ribera d’Ebre and Terra Alta.
Carrasclet died in combat in 1743 in Breisach (Germany) leading 8,000 men. In 1980 a monument was inaugurated in his honor in the town of his birth.
