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Compare And Contrast Santa Anna And Sam Houston

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General Santa Anna, the Napoleon of the west experienced his Waterloo to the revengeful Texas cries of the "Remember the Alamo!” "Remember Goliad!” (McKeehan, n.d.). Santa Anna believed the Texans were demoralized following the Alamo and Goliad and victory would be easily attained. He divided his forces in a three-pronged attack to crush the Texan rebellion: one to capture the Texan Government in Galveston, a second to secure his logistics, and the third in pursuit of Sam Houston which he commanded. The Texan sacrifices at the Alamo and Goliad enabled Sam Houston time to establish a force of 800 inexperienced but motivated volunteers. Sam Houston learned from captured Mexican soldiers Santa Anna’s plans and maneuvered his forces based on this …show more content…

Santa Anna maneuvered his forces under the high ground overlooking a marsh, about three-fourths of a mile from the Texas camp. When reinforcements crossed Vince’s bridge the Mexican force had grown to 1,400 soldiers compared to 800 Texans (Williams, 2014). Santa Anna believed he had the Texans trapped and postponed his attack until April 22. Following a minor cavalry exchange, on April 20, Sam Houston decided to seize the initiative and attack first on April 21. He sent a small force to burn Vince’s Bridge as this prevented further Mexican reinforcements from crossing as well as retreat from both sides. He utilized the slight ridge that ran across the field and positioned his men for a surprise attack (Hickman, …show more content…

Santa Anna fled during the Battle of San Jacinto but a Texan search party captured him the following day. Mexican prisoners easily identified him with shouts of “El Presidente” (Wright, n.d.). Santa Anna feared reprisal from his captors and agreed to sign the Treaties of Velasco (The Texas Revolution, n.d.). He ordered his remaining generals and forces to leave Texas soil and agreed to recognize Texas’s independence from Mexico in exchange for his freedom. Santa Anna eventually made his way back to Mexico and resumed his presidency. He attempted to retake Texas, but every effort failed (Wright, n.d.). Texas was gone and later followed by California, New Mexico, and Arizona. The American southwest was born and Texas became the 28th state on December 29, 1845 (The Texas Revolution,

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At the Convention of 1836, de Zavala was elected vice-president of the ad interim government of the Republic of Texas. After Santa Anna 's capture at the Battle of San Jacinto, de Zavala and Secretary of Treasury Bailey Hardeman were commissioned to accompany Santa Anna to Mexico to negotiate a permanent treaty, but outraged soldiers of the Texas army circumvented this plan and detained Santa Anna for several

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One of the most significant conflicts little known in history is the Battle of San Jacinto and is considered the most critical dispute of the Texas Revolution (Williams, 2014). On April 21, 1836, General Sam Houston launched a surprise attack against the Mexican army. The event took place near present day Houston, Texas and only lasted a total of eighteen minutes. The Mexican army was led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. The Texans thoroughly routed the superior Mexican force at the Battle of San Jacinto and captured hundreds of Mexican soldiers including Santa Anna.

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In The (2004) movie The Alamo we see the battle that led up to the defeat of Texan soldiers in their defense of the Alamo from the Mexican Army led by the Dictator Santa Anna. This film was in some ways very accurate but in other ways had great inaccuracies On February 23, 1836, The Mexican army arrived outside the Alamo and waged a siege on the Spanish mission. The Alamo was defended by a mixed group of Texians and Tejanos who fought and defended the Alamo against a force vastly larger than their own for 13 days viewing it as the key to the defense of Texas. The defenders of the Alamo were led by William B. Travis and was joined by many famous individuals of the time such as Jim Bowie, and David Crockett.

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“Remember the Alamo” is the most known quote from “The Alamo.” During this war the Mexicans came to take over Texas, but the Texans were there to protect it. Sam Houston was the leader of the troops waiting to help the Alamo, but since the shortage in men they waited until more arrived. Waiting for these troops left Travis’s troops to fight alone, this lost the battle. A few days after “The Alamo”, Houston trapped Santa Ana and defeated the mexicans, and since they defeated them they received all of Texas.

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The authors do an excellent job showing that while the Texans were outnumbered and everything was going against them they still fought because they feared they would be ruled with a dictator and would not have freedom like they already had. They felt like this because the Santa Anna led Mexican army fought by force, the soldiers were forced to fight. That is the definition of tyranny and the Texans wanted no part of that, William Travis even expressed their mindset in a letter saying, “VICTORY or DEATH.’’ (127). What the reader sees later is that the battle of the Alamo was not just a loss to the Mexican Army, it was really a wakeup call for everyone to realize that Santa Anna was ruthless and should be accounted for.

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