Benavides obtained the aid of many Mapuche chiefs to combat the Chileans and pillage the countryside.

The Pincheira brothers, a future outlaw group, served Benavides in the Guerra a muerte by defending the Cordillera.

In March 1821 Perseverance was anchored at St Mary's (37°03′S 73°31′W / 37.050°S 73.517°W / -37.050; -73.517) when a boat belonging to Benavides captured her; she was later burnt in the Tubul River (37°13′59″S 73°26′35″W / 37.233°S 73.443°W / -37.233; -73.443).

[citation needed] Conrad wrote "Gaspar Ruiz": in 1904–5, published it in The Strand Magazine (1906), and again in A Set of Six (1908 in the UK; 1915 in the US).

This story was the only piece of Conrad's fiction ever adapted by the author for cinema, as Gaspar the Strong Man (1920).