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In 1874, Santa Anna took advantage of a general amnesty issued by President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada and returned to Mexico, by then crippled and almost blind from cataracts. He died at his home in Mexico City on 21 June 1876 at age 82. Santa Anna was buried with full military honors in a glass coffin in Panteón del Tepeyac Cemetery.
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General Antonio López de Santa Anna was a proponent of governmental federalism when he helped oust Mexican President Anastasio Bustamante in December 1832. Upon his election as president in April 1833, [4] Santa Anna switched his political ideology and began implementing centralist policies that increased the authoritarian powers of his office. [5]
Santa Ana metro station, in Santiago, Chile; Santa Ana Peak, a mountain in Alaska; Santa Ana River, a river in southern California, United States; Santa Ana winds, strong seasonal winds in Southern California, United States, and northern Baja California, Mexico; Owa language, a language of the Solomon Islands formerly called Santa Ana
102 E. 4th Street, Santa Ana, California, 1916 Photograph of 4th and Main Streets, Santa Ana. Car is parked along Main Street, in front of 102 E. 4th (still standing today), southeast corner of 4th. On north side of E. 4th St., shops are visible, which would be replaced by Montgomery Ward, which was, in turn, demolished.
It was fought between U.S. forces, largely volunteers, [3] under General Zachary Taylor, and the much larger Mexican Army under General Antonio López de Santa Anna. It took place near Buena Vista, a village in the state of Coahuila, about 12 km (7.5 mi) south of Saltillo, Mexico. La Angostura ("the narrow place") was the local name for the ...
A Santa Ana fog is a derivative phenomenon in which a ground fog settles in coastal Southern California at the end of a Santa Ana wind episode. When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower 2 to 3 kilometers (1.2 to 1.9 mi) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the air over the coastal basin is extremely dry, and this dry ...