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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
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The festivities may have continued well into the morning hours had it not been dampened by two developments: A sudden midnight rain shower; and a message warning Jim Bowie that General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the military dictator of Mexico, had encamped with several thousand troops on the Medma River--just a few miles south of the mission-fortress called the Alamo. After a series of revolutions in Mexico City thrust into power the brutal and corrupt General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who set aside Mexico's liberal constitution and began to repress the Texans, even moderates like Stephen Austin, son of Moses Austin who had been invited in by Mexico to settle Texas, thought it time to declare independence. It was only after the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty signed in 1848, in which Generalisimo Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna gave away and subsequently sold half of Mexico to the White House, that many of them unexpectedly, even unwillingly, became a part of an Anglo-Saxon, English-speaking reality. |
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna - Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876)