Juan Alejandro Acosta

At the time of the Haitian capitulation, on the 28 February 1844, he had to allay fears that worried the residents of Monte Grande about the abolition of slavery in the process that had begun.

In March, he piloted the schooner La Leonor, which interrupted Juan Pablo Duarte's exile in Curaçao; That was the first time he waved the national flag on foreign beaches.

In 1849 he led the offensive squadron against Emperor Soulouque's positions in Petit Riviere, Dame Marie and in the Keys Inlet.

Some several years later, when Pedro Santana proclaimed annexation to Spain in March 1861, disagreeing with his military chief's move, he remained neutral.

A decade later, On November 9, 1871, in Curacao, he supported Pedro Antonio Pimentel by signing a manifesto against the annexation to the United States that Báez intended to make.