As you might expect, the San Jacinto Museum of History holds several items that once belonged to General Antonio López de Santa Anna - the Mexican leader who trounced the rebels at the Alamo only to ...

Santa Anna’s leg resides in the Illinois State Military Museum in Springfield, Ill. The rest of the general was interred in Mexico City. There are at least three of Santa Anna’s prosthetic legs: the ...

AUSTIN — The petition to wrest Santa Anna’s leg from Illinois and bring it to Texas was flat-footed from the start. But Texas museum officials believe their heart was in the right place, even if that ...

The leadership at the Illinois State Military Museum is tiptoeing away from its most famous artifact. Yes, we are talking about the ultimate war booty: Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s ...

SPRINGFIELD -- First those Texans took our jobs. Then they took our money. Now they want our leg. Well, to be precise, Gen. Santa Anna's leg. But a group of Illinois soldiers stole it fair and square ...

There is a known and documented artificial leg used by Santa Anna, also a left leg. That leather-covered cork leg with a black, square-toed boot is housed in the Illinois State Military Museum at Camp ...

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In 1836, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the president and general who dominated the political scene in Mexico, rose into Texas with his army, with destruction on his mind. He was determined to put down ...

The Daughters of the Republic of Texas have never been fond admirers of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. He, after all, was the annihilator of the defenders of the Alamo in Texas' fight for freedom. And ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The petition to wrest Santa Anna's leg from Illinois and bring it to Texas was flat-footed from the start. But Texas museum officials believe their heart was in the right place, ...

DECATUR - The year was 1847. As historical and personal accounts tell it, on April 18, Illinois and New York soldiers attacked Mexican troops under the leadership of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ...