Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876 (Nombre personal)

Viva Santa Ana y que mueran toditos sus enemigos, 1828

Handbook of Texas, viewed online April 4, 2019 (Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón, soldier and five-time president of Mexico, was born at Jalapa, Vera Cruz, on February 21, 1794; in March of 1821 he joined the rebel forces under Agustín de Iturbide and was promoted to brigadier general; he became governor of Vera Cruz in 1829 and defeated the Spanish invasion at Tampico. In the Mexican War, as commanding officer he lost the battle of Buena Vista in Feb. 1847, returned to Mexico City, and turned east to be defeated by Winfield S. Scott's forces at Cerro Gordo. He sold the Mesilla Valley to the United States as the Gadsden Purchase. From 1867 to 1874 he lived in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Nassau. In 1874 he was allowed to return to Mexico City, where he lived in obscurity until his death on June 21, 1876) https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsa29

Wikipedia, viewed April 4, 2019: Antonio López de Santa Anna (Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón. Born in Xalapa, Veracruz, New Spain. His main act of self-promotion was to call himself "The Napoleon of the West." In 1835 Santa Anna marched north to bring Texas back under Mexican control in the Texas Revolution. On 6 March 1836 at the Battle of the Alamo, Santa Anna's forces killed 189 Texan defenders. After some time in exile in the U.S. in 1837 Santa Anna returned to Mexico to retire to his hacienda in Veracruz, called Manga de Clavo. In 1838 Santa Anna lost a leg due to amputation as a result of a battle during the Pastry War. From 1855 to 1874, Santa Anna lived in exile in Cuba, the United States, Colombia, and the Danish island of Saint Thomas. In the 1850s he traveled to New York with the first shipment of chicle. He introduced chewing gum to the United States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_L%C3%B3pez_de_Santa_Anna