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.

Antonio López de Santa Anna didn’t plan to end up on Staten Island. But after he was overthrown during the Revolution of Ayutla in the mid 1850s, he was forced into exile.

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 ...

AUSTIN — Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush is calling a Facebook post asserting he's planning to erect a statue honoring Mexican Gen. Santa Anna and Mexican soldiers at the Alamo a racist ...