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2 unusual facts about Santa Anna


Bobby Layne

Layne was born in Santa Anna, Texas and attended Highland Park High School in Dallas.

Santa Anna, Texas

Guy Allen, 18 time PRCA world champion steer roper, graduated from Santa Anna High School.


Chatham Roberdeau Wheat

In 1855 he joined the Juan Álvarez campaign against Santa Anna where he was commissioned a Brigadier General in charge of artillery by the State of Guerrero.

Forage cap

Known as the Bonnet de Police, these caps resembled a nightcap and were also worn by Santa Anna's army during the Mexican War, and by Confederate troops during the American Civil War.

The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory

The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987) is a made-for-TV film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo written and directed by Burt Kennedy, starring James Arness as Jim Bowie, Brian Keith as Davy Crockett, Alec Baldwin as Col. William Travis, Raul Julia as Santa Anna, and featuring a single scene cameo by Lorne Greene as Sam Houston.

The Man from the Alamo

During the siege at the Alamo, John Stroud (Glenn Ford) is chosen to leave the fort and warn the families of the mission's defenders of the impending arrival of General Santa Anna.


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Anastasio Bustamante

He defeated them on 14 August at Gallinero, Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, and then returned to fight Santa Anna, who was nearing Puebla.

Joaquín Rea

Rea and Santa Anna failed to take it before the approach of a relief column from Vera Cruz under Brig. Gen. Joseph Lane prompted Santa Anna to leave the siege to stop him.

Johan Basset

This is probably a reference to the convent of Santa Anna at Barcelona, which was originally a house of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre under the guidance of the Patriarch of Jerusalem.

José Justo Corro

During his term of office, Santa Anna was defeated and taken prisoner in Texas; Mexican forces retreated from Texas, in effect conceding the loss of the province; charges were brought against General Vicente Filisola for having obeyed the orders of Santa Anna to abandon Texas (to save Santa Anna's life).

Juan Almonte

Almonte accompanied Santa Anna during his incarceration on Galveston Island.

Mexican–American War campaigns

Santa Anna used French tactics at Buena Vista, attempting to overwhelm American positions with dense columns of men.

Miguel Barragán

Barragán was arrested at the hacienda of Santa Anna and confined in the dungeons formerly used by the Inquisition.

Santiago Abreú

Abreú was a supporter of Governor Albino Pérez, who had become extremely unpopular for enforcing the decisions of the centrist government of President Antonio López de Santa Anna, which included reduction of local political control and imposition of new taxes.

Sion Record Bostick

When Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna marched into Texas in 1836, Bostick reenlisted as a private in Col. Edward Burleson's First Regiment of Texas Volunteers.

Texan schooner Invincible

Pocket had been en route from Matamoros to Santa Anna's army in Texas with a contraband cargo of flour, rice, lard, biscuit, and 300 kegs of powder.

Vicente Filisola

While Santa Anna quickly proceeded toward Sesma and the Colorado River, Filisola with the rear guard, was mired down in mud, low on food, short on supplies, and exhausted.