 The objective of the Colonial Guard was to protect Spaniards settled in the colony.At its creation, the Colonial Guard was composed of 430 European and indigenous personnel, which meant an increase of more than 12% in the workforce with respect to the sum of the three bodies it replaced.The composition of this first composition was set at 1 captain, 3 first lieutenants, 7 second lieutenants, 14 sergeants, 42 corporals and 1 cornet (all of them Europeans living in the colony and from the Civil Guard), 1 senior musician, also of European origin, as well as 12 cornets, 6 1st guards, 320 2nd guards, 6 1st musicians, 12 2nd musicians and 6 music learners (all of them indigenous).