[4] In 1868, he was promoted to Capitán de Corbeta (corvette captain), a rank which in today's Paraguayan Navy is equivalent to Lieutenant Commander.

In 1867 he was named commander of the artillery in the Timbó Fort [pt],[5] but when the Angostura Fortress fell in 1868, he was taken prisoner together with the rest of its garrison, and thus survived the deadly last few years of the war.

[8] In 1888 he was made Capitán de Navío, which then was the highest rank attainable in the Navy, and was responsible for retaking Bahía Negra from Bolivian forces, which had been present there since 1885.

[9] Since 1887 he had been a Minister of the Supreme Court again; he was removed from the post briefly before his death after a controversy involving the reversal of a decision made by the Chamber of Deputies.

[10] The wide variety of positions he assumed in the post-war era are in great part a result of the small amount of able men of the political elite in Asunción (a consequence of the terrible loss of life in Paraguay during the Triple Alliance War).