Eulogio Despujol y Dusay (Barcelona

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, March 11, 1834 - Riba-roja de Túria

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, October 18, 1907) served as a Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines

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 from 1891 to 1893. A native of Catalunya, at first, he ruled in the Philippines as a conservative but later became a reactionary

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. It was during his term when José Rizal

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, leader of the Philippine propaganda movement, was sent to Dapitan island, in Mindanao

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

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 to work as a military

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 medic before being intercepted in Barcelona

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, before sending him back to the Philippines.