 He also requested that the royalist generals Francisco de Paula Sanz and José de Córdoba y Rojas submit to him.He made arrangements that the operation to capture Vicente Nieto should be carried out exclusively by the surviving members of the Regiment of Patricians from the mines of Potosi, who had been incorporated with honors into the Army of the North.Sanz, Nieto, and Córdoba were executed at the Plaza of Potosí.