Who is Gen Enrique Lorega?

Answer 1

General Enrique Lorega is one of the revolutionary generals of Cebu Island, Philippines. He and another revolutionary general of Cebu, Tuburan, General Arcadio Maxilom were very close friends. Gen. Maxilom convinced him to join the revolution when Gen. Leon Kilat was murdered. Gen. Maxilom took him from his mother's relatives at Carcar, Cebu.

General Enrique Lorega was the Secretary of War in Cebu. He was assigned in communicating with other revolutionary leaders throughout the Philippines.

Before the war between the Filipinos and the Spanish colonizers become worst in Cebu, Enrique studied at San Ildefonso, a seminary in Cebu that was located near the Plaza Independencia. He and his group never goes to war without praying the Rosary on the eve of a scheduled assault.

Enrique is the son of Don Jose "Pepe" Casals, a Catalonian (see Barcelona Spain) exile to the Philippines.