What did santa anna do
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Antonio's Birth
- From the parents of Antonio López de Santa Anna and Manuela Pérez de Lebrón, famous Mexican Revolutionary general, Antonio López de Santa Anna was born in Jalapa, Mexico.
- In 1810 at sixteen, he became an army cadet. He had found what he wanted to do.
- Santa Anna and about five hundred others were sent by boat to Tampico. From there they were to march to fight Hidalgo's forces. They were disappointed, for the priest had been captured elsewhere by the time they arrived.
- He loved soldiering. It was exciting, and rewarding. He demonstrated his courage during a battle in San Luis Potosí province in August, 1811 He was promoted quickly to second lieutenant.
- His unit dashed to Coahuila,Texas province to suppress a rebellion there. They took no prisoners.
- He helped Agustín de Iturbide and the war for Mexican independence, but in 1823 he helped overthrow Iturbide.
- He won election to the presidency of the independent republic of Mexico. He did this by a popular majority.
- He soon after determined
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Antonio López de Santa Anna
8th President of Mexico (1794–1876)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is López de Santa Anna and the second or maternal family name is Pérez de Lebrón.
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876),[1] often known as Santa Anna,[2] was a Mexican general, politician, and caudillo[3] who served as the 8th president of Mexico on multiple occasions between 1833 and 1855. He also served as vice president of Mexico from 1837 to 1839. He was a controversial and pivotal figure in Mexican politics during the 19th century, to the point that he has been called an "uncrowned monarch",[4] and historians often refer to the three decades after Mexican independence as the "Age of Santa Anna".[5]
Santa Anna was in charge of the garrison at Veracruz at the time Mexico won independence in 1821. He would go on to play a notable role in the fall of the First Mexican Empire, the fall of the First Mexican Republic, the promulg
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Antonio López de Santa Anna
Martingale from Santa Anna's horse, captured at the Battle of San Jacinto.
HE FOUGHT MEXICAN REBELS under the Spanish for years, receiving several promotions. But in 1821, he switched sides and led the rebels under Agustín de Iturbide. Eventually made governor, he became a national hero fighting the Spanish.
Santa Anna was elected president of Mexico in 1833, the first of five presidential stints. But his autocratic centralism caused rebellion at the local level. It was in this context that his army marched north to Texas.
General Martín Perfecto de Cos marched to Texas ahead of Santa Anna intent on punishing the rebels. But Cos's loss of Goliad, as well as the initial (and less famous) struggle at the Alamo in 1835, proved an embarrassment to Santa Anna. In part, his Alamo siege was a matter of family honor.
After regaining honor at the more famous fall of the Alamo in 1836, Santa Anna felt his job in Texas was done. But under counsel, he decided to take one final swipe at the Texas rebels by dividing his arm
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