As separatists movements in Cuba and Puerto Rico grew, Sucre planned by 1838 to give a full support to those groups. The first movement was to reach an agreement with Britain and the United States. In exchange of commercial privileges in the liberated islands and the Colombian continent, the two Anglo powers would hinder any Spanish counter attack. Sucre gathered a 10,000 men army and shipped it with 600 horses. 4,000 disembarked at Puerto Rico and 6,000 in Cuba, where they joined local independentist militias. In October of 1839, Simón Bolívar died in London.