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Santa Anna's efforts, however, were in vain, as Generals Taylor and Winfield Scott destroyed all resistance.
* February 23 – The Alamo is surrounded by Santa Anna's army, in a 13-day ordeal.
Several of Santa Anna's officers argued that the Army of Operations should advance along the coast, so that they would be able to receive additional supplies via sea.
About 342 of the Texian troops captured during the Goliad Campaign were executed a week later on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, under Santa Anna's direct orders, widely known as the Goliad Massacre.
Until this episode Santa Anna's reputation had been that of a cunning and crafty man, rather than a cruel one ... together with the fall of the Alamo, branded both Santa Anna and the Mexican people with a reputation for cruelty and aroused the fury of the people of Texas, the United States, and even Great Britain and France, thus considerably promoting the success of the Texas Revolution.
All that impeded Santa Anna's advance were the swollen rivers, which gave Houston a chance to rest and drill his army.
It was an option, but not Houston's preferred option — he was looking for, and found, a weakness in Santa Anna's tactics.
Houston was informed of Santa Anna's unexpected move.
Numbering about 700, Santa Anna's column marched east from Harrisburg, Texas.
To the dismay of the Texans, Cos arrived sooner than expected with 540 more troops, swelling Santa Anna's army to over 1, 200 men.
Santa Anna's entire force of men were killed or captured by Sam Houston's heavily outnumbered army of Texans ; only nine Texans died.
The treaty recognized Texas ' independence and guaranteed Santa Anna's life.
However, Ben, a former American slave who acted as cook for one of Santa Anna's officers, maintained that Crockett's body was found in the barracks surrounded by " no less than sixteen Mexican corpses ", with Crockett's knife buried in one of them.
According to Petite, " every account of the Crockett surrender-execution story comes from an avowed antagonist ( either on political or military grounds ) of Santa Anna's.
Caldwell County was founded in 1848, and was named after Mathew Caldwell, a ranger captain who fought in the Battle of Plum Creek against the Comanches and against Santa Anna's armies during the Texas Revolution.
In 1854 he helped draft the Plan of Ayutla, a document calling for Santa Anna's deposition and a convention to implement a new constitution.
One of the earliest maps of Texas shows a mountain near the center of the state with the notation, " Santa Anna's Peaks.
It would become a safe-haven for San Antonio families and a staging point for counter attack when Bexar was overrun in 1842 by Santa Anna's forces under Ráfael Vásquez and Adrian Woll.
Even the sale of a relatively small strip of land angered the Mexican people, who saw Santa Anna's actions as a betrayal of their country.
On his way south, Cos met up with Santa Anna's forces at Laredo marching north to put down the rebellion.
Iturbide's enemy-turned-ally, Vicente Guerrero, turned to enemy again when he supported Santa Anna's plan.
Santa Anna's army marched toward Mexico City, winning small victories along the way.
The two leaders met on 1 February 1823 to sign Santa Anna's plan which called for the reinstatement of congress, Iturbide's abdication and his exile.

Santa and army
With the arrival from the south of 1, 400 fresh soldiers under the command of Andrés de Santa Cruz Calahumana, the fortunes of the patriotic army were again reversed.
* 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
In 1261 he was created Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin by Pope Urban IV, who also appointed him papal prefect in Tuscany and captain of the papal army.
* 1229 – The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
* September 12 – The Catalan-Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
Instead, Santa Anna ordered the army inland to Bexar, the political center of Texas and the site of Cos's defeat ; Santa Anna wanted to restore the reputation of his family after his brother-in-law's embarrassing surrender.
After reaching Saltillo, the army halted for two weeks so that Santa Anna could recover from an illness.
From Bexar, Santa Anna divided his army and sent three flying columns across Texas.
Houston immediately understood that his small army was not prepared to fight Santa Anna out in the open.
Santa Anna was not aware that Houston and his army were, from March 30 through April 12, camped in the woods along the Brazos only fifteen miles above the main Mexican forces who were camped at San Felipe from April 7 through April 9.
Finally, Santa Anna caught up with Houston's army, but had split his own army into three separate forces in an attempt to encircle the Texans.
Army aviation company 291 ( La Paz ), army aviation company 292 ( Santa Cruz ).
* RM 3, Tarija, consisted of Tarija Department and eastern Chuquisaca and southern Santa Cruz: 3. Division army, 4. division army.
* RM 4, Sucre, covering the departments of Cochabamba and northern Chuquisaca: 7. Division army, BMP-272 ( batt. MP ), BATLOG-2 ( long. Batt ), mili. hospital no2, central arsenal, school of command and staff MCAL. A. Santa Cruz, sergeants mili. school, train. center for special troops, artillery school.
* RM 6, Santa Cruz, covering most of Santa Cruz Department: 5. Division army, 8. Division army, BMP-273 R. Amezaga ( batt. MP ), BE-298 ( ecological batt.

Santa and always
The Pope set no limit to his plans, and achieved much in his short pontificate, always carried through at top speed: the completion of the dome of St. Peter's ; the loggia of Sixtus in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano ; the chapel of the Praesepe in Santa Maria Maggiore ; additions or repairs to the Quirinal, Lateran and Vatican palaces ; the erection of four obelisks, including that in Saint Peter's Square ; the opening of six streets ; the restoration of the aqueduct of Septimius Severus (" Acqua Felice "); the integration of the Leonine City in Rome as XIV rione ( Borgo ).
The ELFS then fly him and Charlie home to Laura and Neil, to whom Scott / Santa gives the presents they always wanted since childhood but never got.
In the case of the Santa Ana, for example, the wind can ( but does not always ) become hot by the time it reaches sea level.
) Similarly, the climax of a Santa Claus parade is always Santa in his sleigh, drawn by eight reindeer ( an octigia ).
He transforms back into Santa, and Christmas proceeds as it always has and he and Carol have a three month honeymoon to go on the next day.
Although the founders, and many of the school's original students, came from the former St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Day School in Santa Monica, Crossroads School has always been a secular institution.
People always have fun near it and it is exactly 286. 6 miles from Mcdonald's Santa Monica.
Since Jaramillo's brother, Ike Pino, was already the city manager, this appointment led to charges of nepotism, although Jaramillo defended her relatives, pointing out that Santa Fe had " always been a community that was related to one another.
The town proper which has always been the focal point of activities used to be accessible to the other lake-shore areas due to the navigable Santa Cruz River aside from the Laguna de Bay itself.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ( ATSF ) had always wanted an access to St. Louis.
) As such, the name of the range apparently morphed into the current " Santa Catalina Mountains " sometime between 1890 and 1902, but each previous version of the name always referred to the namesake St. Catherine.
Bogotá has two ( Now three, counting La Equidad ) local teams, and Santa Fe and Millonarios that have always been rivals.
She always loved her family and friends, and upon moving to Santa Monica she ensured she would be back.
* Oogie-Train-Fought in " Saving Sandy ," always change the train tracks to keep this scissor-tipped train from going on the track leading to the rope that is holding Santa Claus up.
* Fudge receives a new bike for Christmas, then tells Peter a shocking secret — that he's always known Santa isn't real.
All this warms the hearts of Santa Marians as they will always remember others who have their imprint in their community's history, and of which they are justifiably proud.
Since their beginning the have always filled up their section bringing a supporting atmosphere for Santa Fe over 6000 members are currently part of this group, and are noteworthy for their grand displays when the team goes into the field.
This was not always the case, as it was a combination of human errors and natural catastrophes in the late nineteenth century that led to the decline of the Santa Cruz.
Santa returns the boys home and expresses his hope that people will always remember Jesus on this day.
This train competed with the Union Pacific Challengers, the Santa Fe Scout and always featured low-cost dining car meals ( as little as three meals for $ 1. 00 per day ) and a special car for women and children ( and nursing babies ).
Though the size of the Super C < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s consist on a day-to-day basis varied from as little as two to as many as 15 or 20 cars, it always generated positive public relations for the railroad as it tangibly demonstrated the Santa Fe's ability to provided expedited freight service over its modern rail system.
Pairs of oxen were always hitched the same way round, and they were often given paired names ( as in the well-known example of the names of Santa Claus's reindeer: Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid, Donner and Blitzen ).
Student journalism has always been a part of college life in Santa Barbara, even before the existence of UCSB.

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