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Santa Anna’s Wooden Leg

  • September 30, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna, who won the Alamo from Texas rebels in 1836, lost a leg fighting the French in 1838. He had it buried with full military honors. During the Mexican-American War, in 1847, soldiers stole his wooden leg from a coach and took it to Illinois, where it remains.

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