He was the president and general of the Mexican forces during the Texas Revolution.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794 - 1876).
No, he was commander of the Mexican Army and also a ruler of Mexico and Texas.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
It ended the War of Texas Independence.
There were several presidents between 1821 and 1836 when Texas split. The most renowned would be Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
He was president of Mexico as well as supreme commander of the Mexican forces.
He was not fighting "Texas, US", but reigning in a separatist movement of people fighting Mexico to make Texas independent of Mexico and become the Republic of Texas. It was therefore not an act of aggression against the United States, since Texas, which was part of the New Spain and now belonged to the Free Mexican United States, after having expelled the Spaniards in Mexico's War of Independence, of 1810 after 300 plus years of colonization by Spain.Mexico was attempting to maintain it's territorial integrity fighting the separatists and who were being supported by the United States the ultimate goal being that the Republic of Texas would then join the Union, as a southern, slave state.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876) was a Mexican politician and military general that became the president of Mexico several times between 1833 and 1855. He is considered one of the main actors responsible for the adoption of the republic in Mexico, but he is blamed for the loss of Texas (1838) and eventually, the Mexican Cession (1848) when Mexico lost half its territory to the United States.
Dominic Lopez was born on January 6, 1968, in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
The dictator during the Mexican American war was Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna. he was exiled.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was a Mexican president and general. He played a key role in the Texas Revolution and the founding of the Mexican Republic.