Supporters of the Revolution were alarmed by the betrayal of the Republic by communities such as Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans and most villages in Cerdagne. As the Spanish advance continued unchecked, it became clear that it was not just the borderlands collaborating with the enemy. Communities close to Perpignan like Millas and Elne appeared to have sold out to the enemy. The war was a harsh and revealing reality check on popular buy-in to the Revolution. The troops of the Spanish army had been drilled not to antagonise the French Catalan people. The Spanish campaign was positioned as the liberation of the northern Catalans from the excesses and anarchy of a godless revolution. The war demonstrated how fractured and divided French Catalonia had become. War-time stresses pitched communities into conflict with each other and often exposed bitter rivalries between factions in towns and villages. The Spanish did not find it difficult to find local anti-revolutionary administrators willing to govern occupied communities. Examples of resistance to the Spanish advance were few and far between, but were celebrated and sometimes amplified both in the region and in Paris as republicans seized upon any good news stories to lift public morale.