Filisola, vicente

Born around 1789 in Ravello ( Kingdom of Naples ), but as a child came to Spain. In 1804 he joined the Spanish army, participated in the Napoleonic Wars .

Since 1811 he served in the Viceroyalty of New Spain . He was a supporter of Agustin de Iturbide , and when he declared himself emperor of Mexico, he led the army under him with the rank of brigadier general. When Mexico was annexed to Central America in 1822, Iturbide sent Filisola with troops to Guatemala to support the process. The province of San Salvador declared the annexation illegitimate, and Filisola had to crush this rebellion . On February 9, 1823, his troops finally entered San Salvador . He announced the inviolability of the life of the people living here and their property, but also the annexation of the province of Mexico. However, on March 19, 1823, the First Mexican Empire fell. Filisola, leaving Felipe Codalos in his place in Salvador, returned to Guatemala, where he had to allow local political forces to re-proclaim independence from Mexico . Since there was no longer any money from the center to support the troops, the Guatemalans themselves paid for the transportation of the Filisola troops back to Mexico, which took place on August 3, 1823.

In the early 1830s, Filisola received a grant for the colonization of Texas , under the terms of which he had the right to settle there six hundred families of non-Anglo-Saxon origin. In 1836, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna made him next in the command vertical during the suppression of the uprising in Texas . After Santa Anna was defeated and captured at the Battle of San Jacinto , Filisola diverted the remnants of the Mexican army to Mexico itself.

During the American-Mexican War of 1846-1848, Filisola commanded one of the three divisions of the Mexican army.

Died of cholera in Mexico City in 1850.