Later he participated in the unsuccessful assault on the Royal Palace of Madrid by means of which those pronounced in 1841 against Baldomero Espartero tried to seize the queen and her sister, still girls, to put an end to the regency, for which he had to go into exile in France.

Minister of the Supreme Court of War and Navy in 1862, in 1866 he was exiled to the Canary Islands for his participation in the revolutionary attempts led by Juan Prim.

[1] He was elected senator for the province of Murcia for the legislature 1871–1872, in his parliamentary activity he was interested in the oath to King Amadeo of Savoy and the fate of the military who had refused to lend it.

Minister of War with Estanislao Figuera, a position for which he was appointed on 30 April 1873, and general in chief of the Army of the North, directed the military operations aimed at facing the Carlist insurrection but could not prevent the advance of the insurgents and their consolidation with the taking of Estella.

At the end of 1875 Nouvilas was considered a danger to the monarchy, they were interned in the castle of Santa Catalina in Cádiz and from there he was exiled to Santa Cruz de Tenerife where he remained, with some interruption, until March 1879 when he was allowed to move back to Madrid where his wife was seriously ill.[4] Nouvilas was also President of the Drafting Board of the General Ordinance of the Army from 1869 to April 1871, he was also the author of some treaties on military tactics and articles in the specialized press, among them Elemental Infantry Tactics, according to the current system of war and advances of weapons, Madrid, 1860, and the light troops in campaign, Madrid, 1869.