Manuel Isidoro Suárez

Manuel Isidoro Suárez (1799–1846) was an Argentine colonel who commanded Peruvian and Colombian cavalry troops in their wars of independence.

[1] He was the great-grandfather of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), who commemorated him in three poems: On August 6, 1824, the revolutionary and royalist armies confronted one another on the plain of Junín.

In the initial melee of "swords and sabers", revolutionary general William Miller's hussars were forced back.

This initial setback led Simón Bolívar to withdraw from the field to his infantry rearguard.

Colonel Suárez commanded the Peruvian Hussars, part of Miller's cavalry.