Ventura Blanco Encalada
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Ventura Blanco y Calvo de Encalada (c. July 14, 1782
Blanco Encalada was born in Chuquisaca, Bolivia, the son of Manuel Lorenzo Blanco Cicerón and of Mercedes Calvo de Encalada y Recabarren (a Spanish father and a Chilean mother). He was trained for the Army in Spain, where he became a Guard de Corps and a lieutenant in the Regimiento de Dragones de Sangunto. During the Peninsular War, he supported Joseph Bonaparte and eventually was forced to emigrate to France. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1816, and moved to Chile in 1820, where his younger brother Manuel was an important political figure who went on to become its first President.
In 1826, President
References
- ^ Amunátegui, Miguel Luis (1873). Apuntes biográficos sobre D. Ventura Blanco Encalada (in Spanish). p. 5.
- ^ Amunátegui, Miguel Luis (1873). Apuntes biográficos sobre D. Ventura Blanco Encalada (in Spanish). p. 25.
External links
- Official biography (in Spanish)
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