An American trader ... Antonio López de Santa Anna accepts a position in the Spanish army as lieutenant general. Later that day, he declares allegiance to the Mexican rebellion and its leader ...

When Santa Anna assumed the Mexican presidency and ... especially with the advent of the Mexican American War in 1846 and the subsequent transfer of large parts of the Southwest to the United ...

The Alamo, where the defeat of Texas revolutionaries by Mexican forces inspired an iconic battle cry, marks its 189th ...

After a few hundred yards, the troops stopped, and under order of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ... of the 4th Illinois Infantry in the Mexican-American War and taken home to Springfield, Ill.

As the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Los Patricios, a group of immigrants, took up arms for Mexico to defend their ...

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s Mexican army approached ... Three years later, after the Mexican-American War, the U.S. would obtain most of what is now the American Southwest with the signing ...