[1] After being nominated general-in-chief of the Venezuelan Army, Francisco de Miranda started looking for French and British mercenaries, and recruited Pierre Labatut.

He did not leave empty-handed, the government of New Grenada awarded him for his services rendered a monthly pension for life of 100 pesos strong, which was served to him until 1815.

[1] On 3 July 1822, he accepted the service offered by Prince Regent Pedro,[1] and he was given the rank of general de brigada, because of the shortage of officers in the newly organized army.

On 9 July, he was nominated commander-in-chief of the relief troops to the patriots of Bahia raised against the Portuguese Brigadier Madeira de Melo, and then receive of Emperor Pedro I full powers for this expedition.

One of them, Colonel Lima e Silva, made his "glorious and solemn" entry into liberated Bahia on 2 July 1823, while Labatut, arrested, waited to go to the council of war, which took place in 1824.

[1] Later, his military career at the head of the Brazilian army experienced ups and downs due to the strong and lasting enmity with Emperor Pedro I's Minister of War.