[2] After the May Days it was dissolved and its structure assumed by the Spanish Republican Army, which definitively militarized the militias of Catalonia and Aragon.

In autumn, following the decree of the central government by which the militias were militarized, the Generalitat took the first steps towards the creation of a "Catalan army".

[11] In the case of the anarchists, they were not especially enthusiastic and if they did not oppose the military project of the Generalitat, it was because it allowed them to continue maintaining an independence that they would lose if they were subjected to militarization and integration into the Republican Army.

[12] On 20 February Colonel Vicenç Guarner i Vivancos, undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense, signed a decree that reorganized the structure of the Catalan Army.

[13] Several more support units were formed, such as machine gun battalions in the rear, but the previous militia structure was remained intact and the measure did not have a great effect.