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Ventura Blanco Encalada
Ventura Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a Chilean political figure.
Blanco Encalada was born in Chuquisaca, Bolivia, the son of Manuel Lorenzo Blanco Ciceron 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 ...
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