Eulogio Despujol y Dusay ( Catalan: ''Eulogi Despujol i Dusay''; 11 March 1834 – 18 October 1907) served as the Spanish

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of the

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between 1891 and 1893.

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granted him the nobiliary title of Count of Caspe after his win in the battle that took place in the town of the same name during the

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. A native of Catalonia,Guerrero, León María. ''The First Filipino''. Guerrero Publishing. at first, he ruled in the Philippines as a Conservative but later became a

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. It was during his term when

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, leader of the Philippine propaganda movement, was sent to

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.De Pedro, J. (2005). ''Rizal through a glass darkly''.

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. He would again meet with Rizal, who was on his way to Cuba to work as a

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medic before being intercepted in Barcelona, before sending him back to the Philippines where he lived the rest of his life.

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