Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas, por el General de Division, D. Vicente Filisola, actual Presidente del Supremo Tribunal de Guerra y Marina de la Republica.

Only volume 2, 625 pages. 12mo, contemporary mexican calf binding with golden devices on the spine,minor wear.

A history of affairs in Texas through April 1836. Another work published by Cumplido in 1849 with the same author and title is basically an entirely new work, with discussion of the 1836-37 period. "The best account by a Mexican contemporary of the American conquest of Texas. . . . No other Mexican commander had the range of experiences nor the intimate personal knowledge of Texan affairs that Filisola had"--Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 62. One of two issues of the Rafael publication.

From the end of 1834 through the battle of the Alamo ending in the mexican defeat in San Jacinto and the army’s retreat back to Laredo.

Description of Texas as he saw it.