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Protect the Smallfolk

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Decades of campaigns from Lepanto to the Catalan Revolt have left thousands of widows, orphans, and crippled veterans of the Tercios de Aragón dependent on parish charity. The Crown will fund a system of Casas de Misericordia and orphanage workshops in Zaragoza, Valencia, and Barcelona, where the children of fallen soldiers receive food, schooling, and apprenticeships under royal patronage. This visible care for soldiers' families restores recruiting enthusiasm in towns that had grown weary of seeing their sons march off and never return.

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