Juan Suero

Born in 1808, he was a native of San Cristóbal, and was the son of Ceferino Suero and María Josefa Carmona (la Rubia). Both of his parents were of African descent. He was raised by the religious Father Jesús Fabián Ayala García, who had participated in the War of the Reconquista and had been the parish priest of that town since 1820. During the Haitian regime of Santo Domingo, Suero refused to join military service, he instead chose to move to Cibao. == Military career ==

During the Dominican War of Independence, he commanded a battalion at the Battle of Sabana Larga (January 24, 1856) against the invading troops of Haitian Emperor Faustin I. == Death ==

He died on March 19, 1864. General Juan Suero died before the end of the war, which is why he did not accompany Máximo Gómez and Eusebio Puello, who were evacuated to Cuba at the end of the war along with the military units they served. Some of these soldiers, like the latter, continued to serve the interest of Spain. While others, like the former, joined the ranks of the "Mambises" who had waged the Ten Years' War against the Spanish. They were excellent warriors trained on the Dominican battlefields. ==Historiagraphy ==

Serum, (despite later joining the royalist forces), was one of the many prominent black leaders during the Dominican War of independence. A Dominican of dark complexion, he was described as "tall, stocky, arrogant, gallant and very nice. He used an expansive, although poorly chosen, language. Neat in dress, he loaded himself with rings and gold chains... The watch pendant had the masonic sign of the campaś and the square..." Manifestations all of the urbanized Creole type and passed through the crucible of leadership, who did not lose never the respect of the compadrazgo, he had the cult of friendship, made the pledged word a formal commitment, and believed in honor and recognized the need to maintain the formulas that was inherited. Spanish General José de la Gándara once said of him: . == See also ==