ALK: Colonel Eugenio Blanco

[Dave Nepomuceno]

< K a p a m p a n g a n >

>From "A Shaft of Light", by R.H.Soriano:

Colonel Eugenio Blanco who was born of Spanish descent in Macabebe, had two
loyalties running through his veins; his Spanish ancestry and his love for
the Philippines. By jus soli he could have been a Filipino citizen, and by
blood as well as his army stint, he was during the Philippine revolution
against Spain a Spanish citizen. As narrated earlier his first sympathies
were for the country of his birth; this is why he became a Mason and helped
the Filipino rebels by looking the other way with the pretext of rescuing
the Augustinian priests in Angeles the after the conquest of his own town.
His men also took charge of Bacolor after it fell to the rebels.

It was only after the liberation of Pampanga from Spain that he decided to
return to the Spanish fold. This writer described the incident earlier,
how Colonel Blanco requested President Aguinaldo to give (Gen.) Monet's
wife a safe passage to return to her home country and how President
Aguinaldo refused to give such permission.

...

His disappointment with President Aguinaldo made him a most bitter man. ...
Blanco was goaded by his desire for revenge against Aguinaldo. Because of
his decision to recapture Macabebe and fight Aguinaldo, he lost the
friendship of the Filipino rebels. Blanco befriended the new American
rulers instead.

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