[1] After completing his first studies at the school of his teacher Téllez in Asunción, 1 in 1841, during the government of Carlos Antonio López, Resquín joined the Paraguayan Army.

By order of the Marshal he retreated to Paraguay by crossing the Paraná River with his troops and more than one hundred thousand heads of cattle from the Corrientes Province that were herded by his army.

[2] Juan Crisóstomo Centurión affirmed that with regard to the events of Cerro Corá, the Historical Relationship of Resquín is inaccurate and has little value because it is that of A man who observed a conduct not worthy of the high rank that he invested, when surrendering, as a prisoner of war.

[1]However, the Paraguayan historian Juan E. O'Leary affirms that: ... it was, alongside the Marshal, the Chief of our General Staff, rendering invaluable services in the constant reorganization of our troops, decimated in hard battles and in the most painful operations.

[2]He remained a prisoner of war in Brazil until his return to Paraguay, when President Juan Bautista Gill entrusted him with the organization of the first postwar Paraguayan army.