Santa Anna only released a couple of hundred prisoners, because he had executed all of the other prisoners. (prisoners of the Mier expedition)
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Santa Anna was the one who personally ordered the execution of 400 Texan prisoners. He died in poverty in Mexico City at the age of 82.
Men (and sometimes women) became gladiators by being captured as prisoners of war, by being incorrigible slaves who were sold to the gladiatorial schools, or by volunteering. The prisoners of war and the slaves really had no choice, but the freeborn sometimes risked the infamy of being a competitor in the arena due to financial needs, or undoubtedly in some cases, ego.
Yes in 1807 and he was taken by the Spanish Army to Santa Fe and Chihuahua before being released at the Louisiana border.
Being captured and killed
When Caractacus was captured along with his wife and daughter, they were brought back to Rome as Prisoners, Caractacus was allowed to speak before Caesar and the Senate before being Executed, His speech was so moving that he and his family were spared, granted freedom and given the rights to live in Rome.
About 300 prisoners escaped from Auschwitz without being recaptured.