Saturnino Blanco Nardo (c. 1790– ?) was an Argentine military man and politician, who served as
congressman
A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The term member of parliament (MP) is an equivalen ...
and
commander
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of
Yaguareté Corá (Corrientes, Argentina).
Biography
He was born in Corrientes, Argentina, belonging to a Creole family of
Asturian ancestry. He took an active part in the civil-military conflicts, serving under the orders of the General
Francisco Ramírez against
José Gervasio Artigas
José Gervasio Artigas Arnal (; June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) was a political leader, military general, statesman and national hero of Uruguay and the broader Río de la Plata region.
He fought in the Latin American wars of ind ...
. In 1821, he served as a congressman for Yaguareté Corá in
Corrientes Province
Corrientes (, ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; gn, Taragui), officially the Province of Corrientes ( es, Provincia de Corrientes; gn, Taragüí Tetãmini) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (fr ...
. That same year he was promoted to the rank of captain, serving as commander-in-chief of the towns of
San Miguel and
Yatebú.
References
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Argentine people of Spanish descent
Argentine people of Asturian descent
Argentine Army officers
Federales (Argentina)
Río de la Plata