Ferdinand's actions did set areas outside of the control of the royalist armies on the path to full independence.

For example, in 1820 the royalist army in Venezuela had 843 white (español), 5,378 Casta and 980 Indigenous soldiers.

Whatever their source, he amply repaid them in July, when he led a large section of the cavalry under his command to assist the western royalist army.

In 1799, the fortified city resisted the attack of the British and Spanish royalist armies, during the first battle of Toulouse.

The advance of the royalist armies was known to the rebels.

Montrose moved north, and in spite of Huntly's increasingly pathological inability to cooperate with him, the royalist armies proved largely successful in the field.

The city had financial problems, and the measures taken by Elío to maintain the royalist armies were highly unpopular in the countryside.

However, Iturbide had the advantage of having most of the former royalist army on his side.

The precipitous collapse of the royalist armies and of the Spanish colonial regime in 1821 opened a future obscured by competing visions.

He went on to gain his own command within the Spanish royalist army until the formal independence of Mexico.