The Santa Anna papers are in a binder that Davis had made for them in the 1960s, Livingston said. About 85 percent of the items in the Texas & Western Autograph & Artifact Auction were sold ...

Wanting immediate cash, Santa Anna settled on the paltry sum of $250,000. Santa Anna’s poor dealmaking brought calls for his removal from office, and he soon headed into exile.

That’s right - on this day in 1836, Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón - aka general Santa Anna was making his way to the Alamo with about 4000 soldiers.

HIS STORY: Auction items include a proclamation (left) by deposed Mexican leader Santa Anna (right), a relic of his 19th century exile in Staten Island, where he unknowingly set Chiclets chewing gu… ...

Three weeks later, Santa Anna repeated his depredations. More than 400 Texas troops, led by Col. James Fannin, had surrendered at Goliad. On March 27, Santa Anna ordered their execution.

Part one explored Santa Anna's complicated role in the history of Mexico as president on 11 different occasions and a leader in supressing rebellions. Part two focused on his role at the Alamo.

By then, Santa Anna was 84, blind and living in near poverty. However, he had a way of rising from the ashes during his long political careers. Three times (1833, 1839, 1853) he was named ...

In 1847, during the war between the U.S. and Mexico, Santa Anna was forced to flee quickly, leaving behind a bag of gold and his prosthetic leg. Illinois State Military Museum. In the poker-faced ...