The campaign was considered to be one of skillful maneuvering, mobility and oversight as Gómez's vastly outnumbered 2,000 Mambises had achieved their goals with negligible losses against the 40,000 Spanish infantry which was commanded by Arsenio Martínez Campos, Sabás Marín and Valeriano Weyler.

Around the same time, Cuban generals Antonio Maceo and Máximo Gómez decided to split ways into two different columns as Maceo would go on to defeat the Spanish at Las Taironas and head for the Pinar del Río Province while Gómez was tasked with distracting the main Spanish forces around the Havana area.

Gómez had to deal with the narrow territory of the Province in the middle of "a terrible maze of stone fences" and to distract the Spanish garrison nearby.

[1] During the campaign, Gómez carried out important incursions through the towns of Alquízar, Bejucal,[3] Güira de Melena, Quivicán and Batabanó in the southeast portions of the island.

It also had positive effects on the military order for Havana, by increasing morale of the Mambises in the region and facilitating the structuring of the Second Division.