[1] Once back in Spain, in mid-October 1808, La Romana gave orders for raising a guerrilla cavalry corps, to be commanded by his brother, Field Marshal Juan Caro, with La Carrera as second-in-command, and with which they were active in Asturias and León.
[2] Towards the end of May, La Carrera left a small detachment of 200 men at Sanabria and marched up to Santiago de Compostela with 1,500 men, 70 horse, and nine guns[1] to form the core of the Division of the Minho, the newly raised insurrectionary army that Morillo and Garcia del Barrio had been training and, as commander-in-chief of this division,[1] would defeat Maucune's four battalions and a regiment of chasseurs at the Combat at Campo de Estrella (Compostela) on 22 May.
[2] Shortly thereafter he handed over his command of the División del Miño to the newly appointed second-in-command of the captaincy general of Galicia, Count Noroña,[3] and they went on to defeat Marshal Soult at the Battle of Puente Sanpayo.
[1] At the battles of Tamames (October 1809) and Alba de Tormes (November 1809), La Carrera led General Duke Del Parque's Vanguard Division, the morning state of which, on 20 November, a week before Alba de Tormes, was 363 officers and 7,050 men, plus one battery of field artillery.
[1] En 1811, still in Extremadura, La Carrera fought at the Battle of Albuera, before moving down into Andalusia and then Murcia.