Santa Anna's Surrender Ratified

Filisola was Italian by birth. Born at Ravello in 1789, he joined the Spanish army in 1804, came to New Spain in 1811 and rose with Agustín de Iturbide, who sent him to bring Central America into the Mexican empire. In 1831 he received an empresario grant to settle 600 non-Anglo families in East Texas, overlapping Cherokee land, a contract he never filled. Charged afterward with cowardice and treason for the retreat, he was cleared by a court-martial in 1841. His fullest account, Memoirs for the History of the War in Texas, appeared in English only in 1985.

What the plaque says

Santa Anna's Surrender Ratified Gen. Vicente Filasola, Second in Command of Mexican armies in Texas War for Independence, fled from area of his nation's defeat at San Jacinto, April 21, 1836. Filasola's aim was to go back to Mexico with his army. After he had passed through Goliad, he was overtaken at Mujerero Creek (12 mi. SW) by Texan army couriers, Col. Ben Fort Smith and Capt. Henry Teal. Signing the ratification of peace at Mujerero, May 26, 1836, were Gen. Filasola, Gen. Eugene Tolsa, Col. Augustine Amat, Col. Smith, and Capt. Teal. (1970) Sponsored by Mr. and Ms. W. M. Neyland and heirs, W. E. and Mary Fitzgerald Neyland.

Where it stands

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