Santa Anna Part 1: “If You Have the Army, You Can Take Control of Mexico!”

In 1868, while living in exile in Cuba, Santa Anna received a call from the future …

Santa Anna joined the military young. When he started to think that his side might lose, he switched sides. Throughout his life he did this frequently by taking advantage of opportunities to excel as they would appear.

In this episode he’ll tell you the story of how he almost invented chewing gum.

Who taught him to execute prisoners of war as he did at the Alamo.

And finally, the reason why he had to take back the Alamo, and why he thinks most people would have done the same thing.

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