General Vicente Filisola's Analysis of Jose Urrea's Military Diary: A Forgotten 1838 Publication by an Eyewitness to the Texas RevolutionGen. Vicente Filisola was second in command of the Mexican army in Texas during the Revolution. After the defeat of Gen. Jos Lpez de Santa Anna by Sam Houstons Texans at San Jacinto, Filisola became commander in chief of the four thousand Mexican soldiers that remained in Texas. The Mexican army eventually retreated to Matamoros, Mexico, and Filisola became the scapegoat for all that went wrong in the campaign in Texas. His chief accuser in this