He returned to fight the French when the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis invaded Spain to restore the absolute power of Ferdinand VII and when those triumphed ending the liberal triennium exiled to England.

There he prepared a statement which he himself led, landing on the coast of Málaga from Gibraltar on December 2, 1831, with sixty men accompanying him, but they fell into the trap that had been laid before him by the absolutist authorities and were arrested.

"The tragic outcome of his life explains what has happened to history, in all fairness, as a great symbol of the struggle against despotism and tyranny, with the traits of epic nobility and serenity typical of the romantic hero, eternalized in the famous painting by Antonio Gisbert.

[3] He later joined the defence of Valencia, Murcia and those of Catalonia, being "one of the few military cadres of the old army who put themselves at the head of the national resistance in the name of the liberal principles of freedom and independence.

He was appreciated by the two sides – the French general Suchet offered him the chance to defect, and the British Doyle asked of the Cortes of Cadiz that he be given a distinguished command in the reorganised forces in the Island of Leon.

He engaged in the attempt to enlist Lorraine who was in charge, with the help of his friend the Lieutenant Colonel Juan López Pinto, and contacted various clandestine liberal groups in his territory.

[6] He supported the patriotic societies defended by the liberals "exaltados" and was inducted in June 1820 into the famous Fontana de Oro and in the Lovers of the Constitutional Order.

[7] When in May 1823 the invasion of the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis sent by the Holy Alliance to restore the absolute power of the King Ferdinand VII, acted under the orders of general Ballesteros.

There he defended the plaza along with Francisco Valdés and Juan López Pinto until a month after the government and the Cortes had capitulated before the Duke of Angoulême in September Of 1823 after the fall of the fort Trocadero of Cadiz, which ended up giving the name to a celebrated square of Paris.

In the act of surrender to the French troops signed on November 3, 1823-it had been a month since Ferdinand VII had restored absolutism-Torrijos got the officers who went into exile to collect their salaries in the emigration, according to their condition of Refugees, not political prisoners.

"[8] In France he stayed only five months because of the hostility shown by his government to the Spanish liberal exiles, who were heavily guarded by the police and who were not allowed to reside in the border departments with Spain.

At that time Torrijos claimed for him and for his subordinates the salary stipulated in the agreement of surrender of Cartagena which the government refused to pay (they only collected after the revolution of 1830, triumphed in France) – and entered in Contact with the general Lafayette, deputy and one of the main leaders of the liberal opposition to the Monarchy of Louis XVIII, with which it maintained an active correspondence of the one that created a long friendship.

Thus he translated from French into Castilian the Napoleon's Memories, preceded by an introduction – in which he showed his admiration for Bonaparte as a forger of a "national" army, among other reasons – and supplemented by numerous notes, and from English into Spanish the "Memoirs of General Miller," who had participated in the Peruvian war.

In the prologue of the latter Torrijos emphasized that Miller had left his land to fight for the freedom "of South America", without even knowing the language, and that "it always served to the homeland that had adopted, doing as it should abstraction of people and matches.

[11] In May of 1830 Torrijos presented his plan for the insurrection consisting in the penetration "in circumference" in the Peninsula to attack the center, Madrid, from several points, which would begin the "break", that is to say, the entrance in Spain of the conspirators in London led by himself would be the signal for the uprising.

Appointed on an interim basis until the nation was "freely assembled" an Executive Commission of the uprising was created led by Torrijos himself, as the chief military officer, and by Manuel Flores Calderón, former president of the Cortes del Trienio Liberal as a civil authority.

"[13] Unfortunately Torrijos paid more attention to Viriato, and to some genuine liberals who also wrote him encouraging him, than to the Junta de Málaga that tried to dissuade him from landing on those shores if he did not have enough forces.