[1] Incorporated into Gaspar de Vigodet's 2nd Division of the Army of La Mancha, he saw action at the Battle of Almonacid and again at the Battle of Ocaña,[1] before withdrawing to the Sierra Morena, where he stopped to defend Venta Nueva and Montizón, before withdrawing towards Granada and then Murcia, where he embarked his division to Cádiz.
Following orders from the Regency, he accompanied Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón, Prince of Anglona, to arrest Ballesteros,[1] after the latter had called for a military uprising in protest against Wellington's appointment as generalissimo of the Spanish Army.
The following November he was given command of the 1st Division of the Duke del Parque's Army of Castille, and promoted to field marshal.
[1] In 1813, he was given the command of the 1st Division of Pedro Agustín Girón's Army of the Reserve of Andalusia and fought at the Battle of Nivelle.
[1] During the Trienio Liberal he was appointed military governor of Seville in May 1820, a post he held until June of the following year.