The Texas Revolution

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

By: Austin Broussard

The Texas Revolution

Early Life of General Santa Anna• He was born in Xalapa(spelt Jalapa in some sources),

Spain on February 21, 1794.• After limited schooling, he worked as a merchant in

Veracruz.• The only child by his middle-class Spanish Creole parents.• He had pale skin, with black eyes, and raven hair with curls.• At the age of 16, he joined the Mexican Army in 1810.

General Santa Anna’s Adulthood

• In 1833, he became President of Mexico.• He married his first wife, 14 year old, Maria

Inés de la Paz Garcia in 1825 and gave birth to five children. She died in June 1844.

• Two months later, he married his second wife, Dolores Tosta who was 15 years old, and they had several more children.

Santa Anna’s Role During the Texas Revolution

He was the President of Mexico and the General of the Mexican Army. He angered many Tejons when he switched from a Federalist Government, which gave the states more power, to a Centralist Government, which gave the power to the government in 1834. On March 6, 1836, he led the siege on the Alamo and won. He was defeated by and captured by Sam Houston and his army on April 21, 1836.

Final Years of Santa Anna

• General Santa Anna died in Mexico city on June 21, 1876.

• At the age of 82 years old, he died of old age.

• He was important in Texas history because he was the general of the Mexican Army and fought the Texan Army.

Interesting Facts• General Santa Anna had an addiction to

cockfighting.• He fought more battles than Napoleon and George

Washington combined.• Once, he gambled all of his possessions away and

had to fake the signatures of several generals to get the government to give him the money to pay off his depts.

• He believed if you weren't helping his army or him that you weren’t needed a were better off dead.

Sources

• http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Mexicoweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Mexico9.htm

• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vicgl/SantaAnnaGenFinal.pdf

• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Antonio_López_de_Santa_Anna

• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_one_interesting_fact_about_Santa_Anna

• http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/santaanna.htm

• http://www.thealamo.org/resources/7thGrade.pdf