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@Ash. Bl. He was an idiot who died a nobody. It would be better if they did a video on the Silver Legion and put his ass as a foot note, make the video extra meaty.
I’m Mexican-American and I live in Texas, we have a bar in downtown Houston called the Pastry Wars, based on the war you briefly mentioned! The war that started because Mexican soldiers attacked a pastry shop! I recommend it, it’s awesome!
No pastries! Great tequilas, mescals and more exotic Mexican liquors. During the Pastry War, the Texas Navy captured a Mexican merchant ship. Whose cargo was scattered near Matagorda Bay. Naming the area Flour Bluff.
I just know that a certain US Naval officer was observing the siege on the San Juan Ulloa (...I'll edit the name once I remember the exact name 🙈) fortress at Veracruz by the French Navy during the Pastry Wars... (His name? David Glasgow Farragut)
@@kimoleto5178 Yes. France blockaded Mexican ports. The Navy of the Republic of Texas interfered with Mexican blockade runners. (I do not know that the exchange was a full blown battle; it was not much of a navy.) Anyway, a cargo consisting of barrels of flour was abandoned near Matagorda Bay
I have so many mixed feelings about my Mexican history. It’s good to air things out. Talking about the negative aspects is as important as enjoying the good ones.
And the saddest part is that, while I was in Mexico, the side they didn't teach me about the shifty condition of the early 1900 late 1800 I was able to learned it here in the U.S
Dude, I live in Texas where they teach the kids that Santa Anna was a Boogeyman. The guy was actually a pretty capable leader, and you get looked at kind of funny if you say that on this side of the border..... real funny. People need to actually know history, theirs and the history of other places and people. They've forgotten a lot here, I'm sorry to say.
Santa Anna really stands out as someone who constantly got thrown out of power, but somehow managed to avoid being executed every time, and even ended up spending his final years living in the nation of his greatest enemies.
In school in New England, we really didn't learn about Santa Anna except for a footnote on the Alamo. Yet another very interesting video. Thanks Simon! 😊❤
@@DefinitelyNotEmma never in history of Mexico Europeans became the majority or even surpassed the indigenous population I do agree the government is a criollo establishment only cares about enriching themselves and not improving the people's lives
As a proud Native Texan and having lived here all of my life I won't over react, although in truth I am quite good at it. I think that you have done quite well in telling Santa Anna's life story. Thanks for not prettying it up, but not turning him into a Snidely Whiplash style villan as was done when I first visited the Alamo in 3rd grade with my class (the highlight of which was not a visit to The Shrine of Texas Liberty and San Fernando Cathedral but, but rather, the visit to the Buttercrust Bakery). I like that reference to tamales, by the way.
As a Mexican, rly loved the video, would love to see another one for Porfirio Diaz, one of the most hated man in Mexicos history, and also one fo the most important for the development of the country
If the teachers in school would have gone into the kind of detail that Simon is able to, you'd be in High School until you were 30. Not much you can get done in a 50 min per day/90 min every other day period once you get the administration end of things done with upwards of 35 - 40 students per class. When you break it down, you only get 20 or 60 minutes of actual teaching time in, IF everything goes well. School teaches you to think, not spoon feed.
I'm Mexican (as pretty much half of the people watching this video xD) and I can say very few people in Mexican history has caused me so many mixed feelings as him. For all Mexicans who think: "He sold more than half of the Mexican territory" 1) He was in exile when the invasion was going on and it was the Mexican people the ones who called him to defend Mexico. 2) The polkos and apathy between the states during the war demonstrated the few unity there was, a fundamental factor in the war. 3) It can be found in Ramón Gamboa (Enemy of Santa Anna) the first pointing of him as a traitor. With publications in 1847 and a study in 1849 that dedicated to talk about "The political asshole" he was. The influence of Gamboa remains today. 4) He didn't signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, it was Manuel de la Peña y Peña. Was he selfish, yes. Did he do a lot of things wrong? absolutely He can be judged in all other Dante’s Circles of Hell, but the 9th is exaggerated, it is easy to blame just 1 person during crisis, but the things are bigger than that.
Santa Anna's life has always fascinated me. Although he was vain and self serving, one could not deny that he did love Mexico. He reminds me of Chiang Kai-shek because in a way they were both the perfect men for imperfect eras. They were both dealt a very poor hand of cards but they played their hand to the best of their abilities.
@@jacksonsteele2807 equip some soldiers with nothing but old equipment against thousands and thousands of enemies better equipped, santa anna couldn't win but he still did a good job.
Mexico is crazy, my Grandma from my Mothers side was the seamstress of and was very good friends with *María Esther Zuno* back in the day. She was the wife of Luis Echeverría Mexico’s 57th President, apparently he was a real super nice guy, extremely corrupt bastard but nevertheless a real nice guy. The irony is not lost on me. He gifted my Grandmother a house in the center of Guadalajara, Jalisco MX., before the end of his ‘term’. She still lives there to this day. My Great Great Great Grandfather’s on _both_ sides came from Spain and married locals. Like, straight up Native American status, I’ve seen a few of the black and white photo’s when I was a teenager. Their sons did the same and their son’s sons did the same thing as well. And it turns out that my fathers father and the rest of his side of the family worked for, and when you worked for someone back in those days it was for life, my mothers side of the family. They were landowners and eventually parted out a majority of the land to all their worker’s to build homesteads. It ended up turning into Tamazula, Jalisco. The mission the family owns and runs is still pretty big and definitely the nicest of all buildings in the town square. My parents found all this out later, from my dad’s grandma mentioning a name my mother recognized, way into there marriage when I was a child, truly insane how all things in the Universe just come together like that.
Don't call it a comeback, Santa Anna's been here for years Rockin' his peers, puttin' suckers in fear Makin' the tears rain down like a monsoon Listen to Mexico go boom!
4:19 Just a clarification, Hidalgo didn't think about independence, he, as many criollos of the moment, was on the side of the spanish king, his protest and movement were in fact, a protest against the brother of Napoleon who was imposed as king of spain in those years, the guy who actually wanted independence was José María Morelos y Pavón, he was a disciple of Hidalgo, and after seeing his movement, he went and started another movement, this one, for independence
You should make a video on Majorian. The last truly great Western Roman emperor, the last chance the West had at a restoration. He cracked down on corruption, defeated the Goths and Burgundians, restored Imperial control of Gaul, Hispania, Illyria and Sicily. Finally he built and assembled a great fleet of 300 ships to retake North Africa from the Vandals. In 4 years (457-461) he came so close to take it all back. He was in his late 30s imagine what he could have accomplished had he had 20-30 years. We may have remembered him alongside men like Augustus, Diocletian and Constantine. But in the end it was all for naught, his great fleet was destroyed by traitors and on his way back to Italy he was betrayed by a general he thought his friend, who tortured him, beheaded him and then dumped his corpse in a river. 15 years later the Western Empire was gone from the map. "The successor of Avitus [Majorian] presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honour of the human species." Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter XXXVI
¡Señor! Thank you for the fabulous history. I was born and raised in Mexico City; I live in the States now, and have for many years, so I have a foot in each culture. People born in the states are Americans (obviously and - legally) with an American outlook, imo. You really have to be born in a country to feel it as your own, rather than through your culture or your family. I don't know how you made it through that unbelievable morass of 1835 to 1853. Thank you for giving the man his due, tyrant though he was.
I am a former special education/math/social studies teacher. Sadly the most I ever learned about SA was a paragraph or two in my high school history class and scenes from King of the Hill. Thanks for the insight into his life and Mexican history.
Loved the video! Very informative, as always! :) Yes, It's the guy who keeps asking for a Ip Man Biographic! He mainstreamed a style Kung Fu that was scoffed at. He lived during a divided, war torn Era of China, and he ended up training one of the most influential martial artist that ever lived. My birthday is in 2 weeks. It would mean the world to me to see a Biographic that I've requested for over 3 years. Thank you in advance and keep up the great content! -A Loyal Subscriber
Hell yea I was waiting for this one. Thanks for making my day off worth a damn, Simon and Crew. Also if you ever want to dip back into Romans, I cant help but suggest Justinian.
My middle school Texas history teacher once said that Santa Anna modeled himself as the napoleon of the West and that he was even eventually defeated at another Waterloo, never been sure if completely true but makes sense to me
@@IrishMike22 He created a monument to half his left leg, after he lost half his leg from a cannon ball during a battle. Yes, he created a monument for his damned leg! That's how self-aggrandizing the guy was. The only thing he was *really* good at was switching loyalties constantly, and somehow convince the others that was what he really thought about politics the whole time. To be fair, Mexico's 1st emperoro, Agustin de Iturbide, was exactly like that as well
I live in Texas. I also minored in History in college so I knew Santa Anna was WAY more than just the villain in Texas' fight for independence. However, I didn't know all the facts that you have given in this video. I knew he ruled Mexico on multiple occasions. I knew he was often the hero and enemy of his nation. Thank you for expanding my knowledge of this man.
He was never a hero he was the early criollo establishment that continued the the same racial classist system which later we fought civil wars and revolutions to get rid of
I don’t say he was good, but it truly breaks my heart to see he fought in the war and yet the people from mexico that chose him to fight in the war being the ones wanting him out.
@@minirandomthechicagoboy6175 no most Mexican didn't care politically what was going on remember 80% of Mexicans couldn't read or write and spoke an indigenous language only 15% did and they were only in major cities so yeah his supporters were the conservative minority
Jose Rodriguez de Francia: First Dictator of Paraguay Francisco Solano Lopez: The Paraguayan Hitler Pedro II: Last Emperor of Brazil Duke of Caxias: Brazil's Greatest General William T. Sherman: The Father of Total Warfare
Eh. Sherman wasn't really the father of Total War. Don't get me wrong he did a lot of messed up stuff, but total war requires all aspects of the state to wage war (Clausewitz himself said so) and Sherman was just a general.
@@spiffygonzales5899 Huh, I read it in a book somewhere. Just FYI, I approve of his March, though his actions against Native Americans were inexcusable.
As a Mexican living in Chiapas, I was interested in finding more comments from Anglo-Americans, I am interested in knowing about their opinion about Santa Anna... But Mexican-Americans flooded the comment box...
You know if I were in Hollywood, I’d make a movie about this guy and make it a dark comedy. I mean c’mon, it was just hilarious how he’d get exiled then come back, rinse and repeat. However I’m not forgetting the the suffering and death he orchestrated. That part is horrific. He was a fool who believed his own legend, I think the analogy of his shrewdness being Palpatine like as well as his cruelty is pretty spot on. It’s just crazy when you think how he was always scheming and waiting for his next opportunity to grab power. That’s just funny to me for some reason.
Ned has the power of god on his side. Hulk has the powers of science and fantasy, which were invented by the devil. God always wins against the devil, therefore Ned will mop the floor with him
@@DefinitelyNotEmma no he doesn’t he is one of the worst Mexican President in history, he was basically the Mexican version of Trump. He wanted to be Napoleon, and ended up no micromanaging everything. The Almo should have never happened.
As a descendant from the Texas area since before the “revolution” I always find new research/perspectives interesting. It was incredibly distracting that the narrator kept calling him “Santer Anna”.
Mr. Whistler et all: Would you do a piece on the WWII hero Duke of Suffolk (Howard family)? He was involved in getting dark water away from Nazi Germany, helped the US start the Manhattan project and helped the Brits start defusing bombs. He's a frickin" James Bond and "Q" put together! He has nothing to do with Mexico, but I just had to request an article about this guy on the most recent Biographics entry I could find. You folks do awesome work!! Also a piece about Polish Squadron 303 in the RAF would make a grand Biographics for any of us who love to hear about real heroes. I just had to ask!!!!!!!!
It's funny, Santa Anna is considered "obscure" in modern Mexican history HOWEVER all my life he was the ONLY historical Mexican figure post the destruction of the Aztecs that I had any extensive knowledge of.
That's cuz both Mexicans and Americans put the blame on Santa Anna too wash away all the blood, greed and dirt each played. He's the convenient scapegoat.
You should do an episode on Louis IX (9th) of France next!!the man went on two failed crusades and did alot of stuff would be an interesting Bio for sure!
Absolutely fascinating, what a bizarre, interesting life this guy lived! As an Australian I don't know much about US history ub this era between the War of Independance in 1776, then the settling of the West, but have been educating myself all about it mostly through Warographics - thank you Simon and team :)
All the people before you were overly biased towards and mocked some deserving lol THIS MAN'S turn to be rightly ridiculed lol is the time you try to be partial? This guy is largely why Mexico is what it is rather than regional power it should've morphed into. But I will say despite the often crazy leaders Mexico has consistenly been friendly towards African Americans and happy you mentioned the often overlooked fact Mexico after independence were hostile towards slavery and was a safe haven for runaways and Mexico was literally one of 2 states that supported Ethiopia when Mussoweenie invaded (Soviets the other). Shame Chicanos and African Americans here in California has given into the racial divide and rule but stuff like Mexico taking in runaways and even giving them land and a gun to defend themselves or that Mexico's 2nd president (correct me if wrong) was Afro-Mexican gives me hope that our relations can go back to how they were literally only a decade and a half ago like the Brown Berets and Black Panthers jointly protecting their neighborhoods from racists and police brutality.
Fascinating to learn the details of this man's life. A hell of a lot more to him, than just the Alamo. And speaking as a Texan - eh, it's fine to skim that particular bit, not EVERYTHING is about Texas after all haha! Very well done video. I have to say, I appreciate the generally even handed treatment you and your team manage for these biographies. It's very nice to see these people presented as PEOPLE - as flawed, heroic, complicated, foolish, and wonderful in turn. Even the worst of humans have some small positive qualities - notice I'm not saying redeeming here, just that there is always a little more to the story than "he was a bad man." Always.
That's the thing - it's called BIOGRAPHICS for a reason ... it tells the lives of these folk and not just the bits that folk beef on about. Everyone has a life, for good or bad - for every Beria or Geobbels there's a Schindler or a Mother Teresa
@@russellfitzpatrick503 Yes, but let's face it, how many times have you encountered someone discussing biographies with anything BUT an even handed approach...? I sure as hell never heard an unbiased biography in school. I feel like it's worth acknowledging their hard work and the fact that they resist that easy path of simplified, sensationalized "biography."
As a Texan, I'm fine with spending minimal time on the Texas Revolution. Its a small part of the life of Santa Ana, albiet an important one. Plenty of other videos that go into the topic in depth
I’m glad I wasn’t familiar with anything outside of the Texas era. I was enjoying suspense as I was sure he couldn’t rise again. I assumed the Alamo was his undoing.
The Goliad Massacre was even worse. Adding that to the execution of a few Alamo survivors, probably including David Crockett, was stupid. Santa Anna transformed two ragged bands of Filibusters into Sainted Heroes
Many people in Mexico hate Santa Anna for the wrong reasons, he never sold the territory, he fought against the gringos, in his government he became the presidential band and the national anthem.
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón 21 February 1794 - 21 June 1876 He was usually known as Santa Anna or López de Santa Anna. He was a Mexican soldier, politician, and caudillo who served as the 8th president of Mexico multiple times between 1833 and 1855. He also served as Vice President of Mexico from 1837 to 1839. He was a controversial and pivotal figure in Mexican politics during the 19th century, to the point that he has been called an "uncrowned monarch", and historians often refer to the three decades after Mexican independence as the "Age of Santa Anna".
Interesting to hear the history of him since I never really heard much same with that the region of Oregon I'm native to was part of Mexico till the Mexican-American War though the tribes I'm from probably hated both Mexico and U.S and to this day you can probably still find parts of my tribe that still have a deep hatred for one or another, sorry if I offended anyone
More than an act of "revolution" or "independence," it was taking advantage of the fact that the country's capital was so far away and taking advantage of the fact that most of the people in Texas were Americans. It was a filibusters' action that turned out very well for those slavers.
As a Texan I literally skipped to 14:15 and would like to file a complaint! I'm also going to add stats at the Battle of San Jacinto. The Mexican Army had 1360 men. The Texan Army had 910. The Mexican Army lost, 650 killed. 208 Wounded. 300 Captured. The Texan Army, 11 killed. 30 Wounded. ... Battle lasted 18 minutes...
WOW!!! You'd almost think that SW had a thing for Mexico - documentaries on Pancho Villa, Zapata, Porfirio Diaz and now Santa Ana. Wonderful ..., far better than any history lesson
his accent is so thick, perhaps is a way to make this a good commercial for the platform he advertises while trying to find the same content with a more neutral audio
Simon, can you do a video explaining why British folk like yourself add an “r” sound at the end of words that end in vowels when the following word begins with a vowel? You’ve done it several times in this video when you say “Santar Ranna.”
Honestly I'm British too with a not dissimilar accent to him (southern rp) and it was bugging me too. It's not a feature of the accent but I also wouldn't say it's just a quirk he has either, I think it's something people do when they struggle to separate the vowels by using a glottal stop (I think that's what I would do anyway? I'm saying santa anna aloud to figure out 😂).
@@AM-kr4pv It’s something I’ve been curious about for a long time. I’ve asked Simon to look into it and do a video on Today I Found Out many times. What’s interesting is that he says Santa Anna clearly without the r sounds a couple times during this video.
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Can you do a video on António Salazar the Portuguese dictator who ruled Portugal for 48 years.
@Ash. Bl. He was an idiot who died a nobody. It would be better if they did a video on the Silver Legion and put his ass as a foot note, make the video extra meaty.
Can we get a video on General Sir John Monash and Arthur Currie
@@RemberReach yes i agree
please do
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joerge ubico
augustine sandino
augistin gammara and pedro of brazil
I’m Mexican-American and I live in Texas, we have a bar in downtown Houston called the Pastry Wars, based on the war you briefly mentioned! The war that started because Mexican soldiers attacked a pastry shop! I recommend it, it’s awesome!
Were the pastries that good? Are they still around?
No pastries! Great tequilas, mescals and more exotic Mexican liquors.
During the Pastry War, the Texas Navy captured a Mexican merchant ship. Whose cargo was scattered near Matagorda Bay. Naming the area Flour Bluff.
I just know that a certain US Naval officer was observing the siege on the San Juan Ulloa (...I'll edit the name once I remember the exact name 🙈) fortress at Veracruz by the French Navy during the Pastry Wars...
(His name? David Glasgow Farragut)
@@kimoleto5178
Yes. France blockaded Mexican ports. The Navy of the Republic of Texas interfered with Mexican blockade runners. (I do not know that the exchange was a full blown battle; it was not much of a navy.)
Anyway, a cargo consisting of barrels of flour was abandoned near Matagorda Bay
I have so many mixed feelings about my Mexican history. It’s good to air things out. Talking about the negative aspects is as important as enjoying the good ones.
And the saddest part is that, while I was in Mexico, the side they didn't teach me about the shifty condition of the early 1900 late 1800 I was able to learned it here in the U.S
My work buddy and his family say "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us"!
@@Face2theScr33n
Let's be real here, Texas had every right to do what it did. That being said, dude accomplished a lot.
@@Face2theScr33n I had a friend who said that and his own grandfather said "yeah, but our feet still worked and we didn't walk."
Dude, I live in Texas where they teach the kids that Santa Anna was a Boogeyman. The guy was actually a pretty capable leader, and you get looked at kind of funny if you say that on this side of the border..... real funny. People need to actually know history, theirs and the history of other places and people. They've forgotten a lot here, I'm sorry to say.
Santa Anna really stands out as someone who constantly got thrown out of power, but somehow managed to avoid being executed every time, and even ended up spending his final years living in the nation of his greatest enemies.
During one of his exile years he lived in Colombia and lived in one of Bolivars houses.
I was hoping you mention that while on one of his exiles, he helped to introduce chewing gum to America. Just a fun tidbit
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What do herpes and Santa Anna have in common?
They just keep coming back
@Cheeba Roadz sadly, true
@@vardekpetrovic9716? This isn't about modern presidents, context is an important thing.
@@garretth8224 they will not understand you, you need to use more political buzz words.
In school in New England, we really didn't learn about Santa Anna except for a footnote on the Alamo. Yet another very interesting video. Thanks Simon! 😊❤
As a Mexican I can confirm that up to this day we hate Santa Ana.
@@vardekpetrovic9716 I'd vote for Salma Hayek
@@vardekpetrovic9716 go back to Europe if u love Spain so much
@@cachifli870 Mexico is a European colony, just like the US and Canada. Y'all are European but don't know yet 😎
@@dda40x1 Salma Hayek could preside over me any day
@@DefinitelyNotEmma never in history of Mexico Europeans became the majority or even surpassed the indigenous population I do agree the government is a criollo establishment only cares about enriching themselves and not improving the people's lives
As a proud Native Texan and having lived here all of my life I won't over react, although in truth I am quite good at it. I think that you have done quite well in telling Santa Anna's life story. Thanks for not prettying it up, but not turning him into a Snidely Whiplash style villan as was done when I first visited the Alamo in 3rd grade with my class (the highlight of which was not a visit to The Shrine of Texas Liberty and San Fernando Cathedral but, but rather, the visit to the Buttercrust Bakery). I like that reference to tamales, by the way.
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2:10 - Chapter 1 - The royalist
5:55 - Chapter 2 - The rebel
9:20 - Chapter 3 - The caudillo
13:15 - Chapter 4 - The dictator
17:00 - Chapter 5 - The president
20:30 - Chapter 6 - The exile
Doing god’s work
He literally was a chameleon
As a Mexican, rly loved the video, would love to see another one for Porfirio Diaz, one of the most hated man in Mexicos history, and also one fo the most important for the development of the country
he did one on him already
@@m.j.vazquez4720 thank i will look it up!
I've learned more about Santa Anna from this video than I ever did in my history classes in junior and high school.
If the teachers in school would have gone into the kind of detail that Simon is able to, you'd be in High School until you were 30. Not much you can get done in a 50 min per day/90 min every other day period once you get the administration end of things done with upwards of 35 - 40 students per class. When you break it down, you only get 20 or 60 minutes of actual teaching time in, IF everything goes well. School teaches you to think, not spoon feed.
Can you do a video on António Salazar the Portuguese dictator who ruled Portugal for 48 years.
The "good" dictator.
I thought he’d make a great video too. Fascinating man.
@@_jonhatan he already did a pol pot video.
I'm Mexican (as pretty much half of the people watching this video xD) and I can say very few people in Mexican history has caused me so many mixed feelings as him.
For all Mexicans who think:
"He sold more than half of the Mexican territory"
1) He was in exile when the invasion was going on and it was the Mexican people the ones who called him to defend Mexico.
2) The polkos and apathy between the states during the war demonstrated the few unity there was, a fundamental factor in the war.
3) It can be found in Ramón Gamboa (Enemy of Santa Anna) the first pointing of him as a traitor. With publications in 1847 and a study in 1849 that dedicated to talk about "The political asshole" he was. The influence of Gamboa remains today.
4) He didn't signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, it was Manuel de la Peña y Peña.
Was he selfish, yes.
Did he do a lot of things wrong? absolutely
He can be judged in all other Dante’s Circles of Hell, but the 9th is exaggerated, it is easy to blame just 1 person during crisis, but the things are bigger than that.
Also before anyone starts saying, no I do not hold any resentment because of the war.
Te recomiendo que veas la guerra México vs Estados Unidos parte una y dos teara encontrar más sentimientos.
Santa Anna's life has always fascinated me. Although he was vain and self serving, one could not deny that he did love Mexico. He reminds me of Chiang Kai-shek because in a way they were both the perfect men for imperfect eras. They were both dealt a very poor hand of cards but they played their hand to the best of their abilities.
He still got dunked on by Texas tho YEAH BABY 💪
@@jacksonsteele2807 equip some soldiers with nothing but old equipment against thousands and thousands of enemies better equipped, santa anna couldn't win but he still did a good job.
As someone from Maryland I was never really interested in Mexican history but learning about these famous leaders got me fascinated now.
Mexico is crazy, my Grandma from my Mothers side was the seamstress of and was very good friends with *María Esther Zuno* back in the day.
She was the wife of Luis Echeverría Mexico’s 57th President, apparently he was a real super nice guy, extremely corrupt bastard but nevertheless a real nice guy. The irony is not lost on me.
He gifted my Grandmother a house in the center of Guadalajara, Jalisco MX., before the end of his ‘term’.
She still lives there to this day.
My Great Great Great Grandfather’s on _both_ sides came from Spain and married locals. Like, straight up Native American status, I’ve seen a few of the black and white photo’s when I was a teenager. Their sons did the same and their son’s sons did the same thing as well.
And it turns out that my fathers father and the rest of his side of the family worked for, and when you worked for someone back in those days it was for life, my mothers side of the family. They were landowners and eventually parted out a majority of the land to all their worker’s to build homesteads. It ended up turning into Tamazula, Jalisco. The mission the family owns and runs is still pretty big and definitely the nicest of all buildings in the town square.
My parents found all this out later, from my dad’s grandma mentioning a name my mother recognized, way into there marriage when I was a child, truly insane how all things in the Universe just come together like that.
Also Trotsky would exchange letters with Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution
Tamazula as in Tamazula de Gordiano???? My family is from there!
As a Texan, I can only say, outstanding biography of an extremely complex personality. Or as Grand Daddy would say, "Ya done good."
@@iPad-kid Texan refers to people from Texas it’s not an ethnic group
@@iPad-kid are you just learning this? Good for you! - A Texan
@@kerosenelamp5964you’re are overcomplicating people ending a word in “an”. Texans live in Texas it’s not that deep
Don't call it a comeback, Santa Anna's been here for years
Rockin' his peers, puttin' suckers in fear
Makin' the tears rain down like a monsoon
Listen to Mexico go boom!
What?
@@ericktellez7632 its a LL cool J reference LOL
Lol I read this as soon as he said "comeback"
Over the competition he’s towering’!
As a proud Texan... I'd like to completely overreact. Thank you
LMAO 😁
as a non-texan, i expect texans to over-react. thank you
@@eddyguizonde401 We're good at it I think. 🤷
Much love from your older but smaller brother Tennessee.
I wonder what a Canadian overreacting would be like.
4:19 Just a clarification, Hidalgo didn't think about independence, he, as many criollos of the moment, was on the side of the spanish king, his protest and movement were in fact, a protest against the brother of Napoleon who was imposed as king of spain in those years, the guy who actually wanted independence was José María Morelos y Pavón, he was a disciple of Hidalgo, and after seeing his movement, he went and started another movement, this one, for independence
As a Texan, it's nice to get more than just the stuff I learned decades ago.
Here from 2 months later to agree with this take.
You should make a video on Majorian. The last truly great Western Roman emperor, the last chance the West had at a restoration. He cracked down on corruption, defeated the Goths and Burgundians, restored Imperial control of Gaul, Hispania, Illyria and Sicily. Finally he built and assembled a great fleet of 300 ships to retake North Africa from the Vandals. In 4 years (457-461) he came so close to take it all back. He was in his late 30s imagine what he could have accomplished had he had 20-30 years. We may have remembered him alongside men like Augustus, Diocletian and Constantine.
But in the end it was all for naught, his great fleet was destroyed by traitors and on his way back to Italy he was betrayed by a general he thought his friend, who tortured him, beheaded him and then dumped his corpse in a river. 15 years later the Western Empire was gone from the map.
"The successor of Avitus [Majorian] presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honour of the human species."
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter XXXVI
Very good suggestion I think he should consider
When this is done I'm gonna watch that episode of King of The Hill where Dale and Cotton steal Santa Ana's wooden leg
A woman of culture I see
Jeez...I now regret missing that episode. That sounds wild.
7:58 Absolutely LOVED the Imperial Empire Star Wars analogy!
You know it went right over Simon's head
If youre an Texan-american, its partly thanks to this guy
Cotton killed fiddy men to steal that leg
He gave his kneecaps for America
Lol
One santy anny's leg!
¡Señor! Thank you for the fabulous history. I was born and raised in Mexico City; I live in the States now, and have for many years, so I have a foot in each culture. People born in the states are Americans (obviously and - legally) with an American outlook, imo. You really have to be born in a country to feel it as your own, rather than through your culture or your family. I don't know how you made it through that unbelievable morass of 1835 to 1853. Thank you for giving the man his due, tyrant though he was.
How much of an opportunist are you?
Santa Anna: Yes
I am a former special education/math/social studies teacher. Sadly the most I ever learned about SA was a paragraph or two in my high school history class and scenes from King of the Hill.
Thanks for the insight into his life and Mexican history.
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Loved the video! Very informative, as always! :)
Yes, It's the guy who keeps asking for a Ip Man Biographic! He mainstreamed a style Kung Fu that was scoffed at. He lived during a divided, war torn Era of China, and he ended up training one of the most influential martial artist that ever lived. My birthday is in 2 weeks. It would mean the world to me to see a Biographic that I've requested for over 3 years. Thank you in advance and keep up the great content!
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I keep hearing him say “Santa rana” 😂😂
Hell yea I was waiting for this one. Thanks for making my day off worth a damn, Simon and Crew.
Also if you ever want to dip back into Romans, I cant help but suggest Justinian.
Aurelian.
Basil II.
@@vardekpetrovic9716 show me where i asked
I can't help but keep hearing "San Terranna", wanting to add, "saurus Rex" to the end...
I thought that I was the only one hearing that.
I’m hearing Santer Ana🤣
The closed captioning actually did! lol
My middle school Texas history teacher once said that Santa Anna modeled himself as the napoleon of the West and that he was even eventually defeated at another Waterloo, never been sure if completely true but makes sense to me
He called himself that. He was a brilliant everything in his own mind.
@@IrishMike22 He created a monument to half his left leg, after he lost half his leg from a cannon ball during a battle. Yes, he created a monument for his damned leg! That's how self-aggrandizing the guy was. The only thing he was *really* good at was switching loyalties constantly, and somehow convince the others that was what he really thought about politics the whole time. To be fair, Mexico's 1st emperoro, Agustin de Iturbide, was exactly like that as well
He was much less competent.
@@JosePineda-cy6om so true. He is perhaps the most self-serving head-of-state that Mexico has sadly had.
@@JosePineda-cy6om VIVA EMPERADOR ITURBIDE
I live in Texas. I also minored in History in college so I knew Santa Anna was WAY more than just the villain in Texas' fight for independence. However, I didn't know all the facts that you have given in this video. I knew he ruled Mexico on multiple occasions. I knew he was often the hero and enemy of his nation. Thank you for expanding my knowledge of this man.
He was never a hero he was the early criollo establishment that continued the the same racial classist system which later we fought civil wars and revolutions to get rid of
I don’t say he was good, but it truly breaks my heart to see he fought in the war and yet the people from mexico that chose him to fight in the war being the ones wanting him out.
@@minirandomthechicagoboy6175 no most Mexican didn't care politically what was going on remember 80% of Mexicans couldn't read or write and spoke an indigenous language only 15% did and they were only in major cities so yeah his supporters were the conservative minority
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William T. Sherman: The Father of Total Warfare
Eh. Sherman wasn't really the father of Total War. Don't get me wrong he did a lot of messed up stuff, but total war requires all aspects of the state to wage war (Clausewitz himself said so) and Sherman was just a general.
@@spiffygonzales5899 Huh, I read it in a book somewhere. Just FYI, I approve of his March, though his actions against Native Americans were inexcusable.
As a Mexican living in Chiapas, I was interested in finding more comments from Anglo-Americans, I am interested in knowing about their opinion about Santa Anna... But Mexican-Americans flooded the comment box...
Roman General Sulla!
We know how much Simon loves Roman Biographics
I have also suggested Sulla - who is arguably the 1st Roman Emperor.
As a Texan, we learn about this guy in 8th grade Texas History.
I live in Michigan, and we learn about history here too. It's crazy how that works.
Oh cool! I'm from the north Texas area. Yes i remember even watching the movie as part of the lessons lol
I learned of him since 5th grade when we learned about the Alamo. I too am from Texas, San Antonio to be specific.
He’s part of Alamo history. REMEMBER THE ALAMO! REMEMBER GOLIAD
7th grade history. This is a very good biography of him.
I’m a Texan and am outraged…. Please Continue
Can you do Miguel Hidalgo, Vicente Guerrero, Benito Juárez please? It would relatively round out 19th century Mexico.
Please do one about William of Orange
... and REALLY see the comments section light up
@@russellfitzpatrick503 ??
this guy was the literal living wild card.
He's the guy everyone hates in history class both in mexico and America lol
So true!
Exactly
So fuck’n true.
You know if I were in Hollywood, I’d make a movie about this guy and make it a dark comedy. I mean c’mon, it was just hilarious how he’d get exiled then come back, rinse
and repeat. However I’m not forgetting the the suffering and death he orchestrated. That part is horrific. He was a fool who believed his own legend, I think the analogy of his shrewdness being Palpatine like as well as his cruelty is pretty spot on. It’s just crazy when you think how he was always scheming and waiting for his next opportunity to grab power. That’s just funny to me for some reason.
What a life this man had.
Davy Crockett Next!?
It would be nice to separate man from folk hero.
Im from his "hometown" in Tennessee.
Would love a video about Juarez, he had a fascinating life
Venustiano Carranza as well.
Vicente Guerrero and Cardenas
Yeah now that’s a good President, he is the greatest Mexican President in history, he did so much for the common man.
Why is no one talking about Melchor Ocampo smh
@@LoneWolf-gl6mb he was a dictador, didn't care for his people.
I love how he makes so many ridiculous mistakes and just gets a slap on the wrist and gets sent into exile each time
Ned Flanders taking on the Hulk: the crossover we didn't know we needed
Twenty bucks on Ned Flanders
I will take that bet.
@@jessicajujubean5004
Ned has the power of God and anime(tion) on his side
I love how everyone forgets Ned is pretty strong I got 50 on Ned F*ing hulk up
Ned has the power of god on his side. Hulk has the powers of science and fantasy, which were invented by the devil. God always wins against the devil, therefore Ned will mop the floor with him
You got to love Santa Ana!🎉🎉
Say what you want about this man, Santa Ana has my respect for never giving up.
I've never heard about that man, as I'm from Europe but damn, he needs a movie
@@DefinitelyNotEmma no he doesn’t he is one of the worst Mexican President in history, he was basically the Mexican version of Trump. He wanted to be Napoleon, and ended up no micromanaging everything. The Almo should have never happened.
@@LoneWolf-gl6mb Everything about Mexico is bad, but this guy is pretty interesting
@@DefinitelyNotEmma
We don’t kill people on the streets for being black, and I can go to the hospital without selling my house.
@@LoneWolf-gl6mb he at least tried to bring stability and dignity to Mexico. Something the political environment of Mexico did not tolerate.
As a descendant from the Texas area since before the “revolution” I always find new research/perspectives interesting. It was incredibly distracting that the narrator kept calling him “Santer Anna”.
That's for his accent
Mr. Whistler et all: Would you do a piece on the WWII hero Duke of Suffolk (Howard family)? He was involved in getting dark water away from Nazi Germany, helped the US start the Manhattan project and helped the Brits start defusing bombs. He's a frickin" James Bond and "Q" put together! He has nothing to do with Mexico, but I just had to request an article about this guy on the most recent Biographics entry I could find. You folks do awesome work!! Also a piece about Polish Squadron 303 in the RAF would make a grand Biographics for any of us who love to hear about real heroes. I just had to ask!!!!!!!!
Have you made a video on the great pyramid of Cholula? The biggest pyramid in the world. It’s in Mexico 🇲🇽
It's funny, Santa Anna is considered "obscure" in modern Mexican history HOWEVER all my life he was the ONLY historical Mexican figure post the destruction of the Aztecs that I had any extensive knowledge of.
That's cuz both Mexicans and Americans put the blame on Santa Anna too wash away all the blood, greed and dirt each played. He's the convenient scapegoat.
You should do an episode on Louis IX (9th) of France next!!the man went on two failed crusades and did alot of stuff would be an interesting Bio for sure!
I love Santer Anna. Sounds like a fun party-crasher type of guy. He was as intrusive as that "R" between two "A" s.
I learned alot about Mexico today.
Absolutely fascinating, what a bizarre, interesting life this guy lived! As an Australian I don't know much about US history ub this era between the War of Independance in 1776, then the settling of the West, but have been educating myself all about it mostly through Warographics - thank you Simon and team :)
All the people before you were overly biased towards and mocked some deserving lol THIS MAN'S turn to be rightly ridiculed lol is the time you try to be partial? This guy is largely why Mexico is what it is rather than regional power it should've morphed into.
But I will say despite the often crazy leaders Mexico has consistenly been friendly towards African Americans and happy you mentioned the often overlooked fact Mexico after independence were hostile towards slavery and was a safe haven for runaways and Mexico was literally one of 2 states that supported Ethiopia when Mussoweenie invaded (Soviets the other). Shame Chicanos and African Americans here in California has given into the racial divide and rule but stuff like Mexico taking in runaways and even giving them land and a gun to defend themselves or that Mexico's 2nd president (correct me if wrong) was Afro-Mexican gives me hope that our relations can go back to how they were literally only a decade and a half ago like the Brown Berets and Black Panthers jointly protecting their neighborhoods from racists and police brutality.
"Santa Rana"
love how most of the times Simon says his name as "Saint Frog"
Emperor Augustin I of Mexico looks awfully like Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.
Fascinating to learn the details of this man's life. A hell of a lot more to him, than just the Alamo. And speaking as a Texan - eh, it's fine to skim that particular bit, not EVERYTHING is about Texas after all haha!
Very well done video. I have to say, I appreciate the generally even handed treatment you and your team manage for these biographies. It's very nice to see these people presented as PEOPLE - as flawed, heroic, complicated, foolish, and wonderful in turn. Even the worst of humans have some small positive qualities - notice I'm not saying redeeming here, just that there is always a little more to the story than "he was a bad man." Always.
That's the thing - it's called BIOGRAPHICS for a reason ... it tells the lives of these folk and not just the bits that folk beef on about. Everyone has a life, for good or bad - for every Beria or Geobbels there's a Schindler or a Mother Teresa
@@russellfitzpatrick503 Yes, but let's face it, how many times have you encountered someone discussing biographies with anything BUT an even handed approach...? I sure as hell never heard an unbiased biography in school. I feel like it's worth acknowledging their hard work and the fact that they resist that easy path of simplified, sensationalized "biography."
What a legend. To bad they dont teach in most schools anymore
During his exile he pitched chicle (gum) to businesses and bank officers. Unfortunately none saw financial benefit.
As a Texan, I'm fine with spending minimal time on the Texas Revolution. Its a small part of the life of Santa Ana, albiet an important one. Plenty of other videos that go into the topic in depth
I’m glad I wasn’t familiar with anything outside of the Texas era. I was enjoying suspense as I was sure he couldn’t rise again. I assumed the Alamo was his undoing.
The Goliad Massacre was even worse. Adding that to the execution of a few Alamo survivors, probably including David Crockett, was stupid.
Santa Anna transformed two ragged bands of Filibusters into Sainted Heroes
Many people in Mexico hate Santa Anna for the wrong reasons, he never sold the territory, he fought against the gringos, in his government he became the presidential band and the national anthem.
I knew he was exiled once or twice, but man, that was a far stranger career than I thought.
Loved the (what I assume are autogenerated) captions. Especially "In Cuba, San Tyrannosaurus..."
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón
21 February 1794 - 21 June 1876
He was usually known as Santa Anna or López de Santa Anna.
He was a Mexican soldier, politician, and caudillo who served as the 8th president of Mexico multiple times between 1833 and 1855.
He also served as Vice President of Mexico from 1837 to 1839.
He was a controversial and pivotal figure in Mexican politics during the 19th century, to the point that he has been called an "uncrowned monarch", and historians often refer to the three decades after Mexican independence as the "Age of Santa Anna".
Nice. Maybe Winfield Scott while we here?
Nice video may I recommend, Jose San Martin 🇦🇷 probably the second biggest liberater of South America after Simon Bolivar 🇨🇴
Interesting to hear the history of him since I never really heard much same with that the region of Oregon I'm native to was part of Mexico till the Mexican-American War though the tribes I'm from probably hated both Mexico and U.S and to this day you can probably still find parts of my tribe that still have a deep hatred for one or another, sorry if I offended anyone
So was this intentionally released on Día de Los Muertos?
Yeah most likely
Probably
I've never heard of San Terraner.
Viva patriot Santanna, viva Mexico!
Viva Santa Anna 🇲🇽 Viva la Patria
I love listening to videos about Santer Ana.
Wow. What a fascinating story.
19:32 LOL literally makes a fart sound to conclude his title
More than an act of "revolution" or "independence," it was taking advantage of the fact that the country's capital was so far away and taking advantage of the fact that most of the people in Texas were Americans. It was a filibusters' action that turned out very well for those slavers.
Thank you for recognizing that you were gonna piss off all of us Texans for spending less than 2 minutes on our foundational story
please do more hispanic historical figures
thank you, i was waiting for this. do Francisco Solano Lopez of Paraguay next!
I wonder if we will eventually see videos on admiral Hood and Rodney of the Royal Navy
Could you please do a bio on Ip Man? Thank you :)
As a Texan I literally skipped to 14:15 and would like to file a complaint!
I'm also going to add stats at the Battle of San Jacinto.
The Mexican Army had 1360 men.
The Texan Army had 910.
The Mexican Army lost,
650 killed.
208 Wounded.
300 Captured.
The Texan Army,
11 killed.
30 Wounded.
... Battle lasted 18 minutes...
The Texans caught the Mexican Army completely by surprise.
@@michaelsinger4638 one does have to ask how though.
Thanks Wikipedia
@@michaelsinger4638 In broad daylight.
@@michaelsinger4638 Ah yes, the namesake of the hotel in downtown San Antonio,
In Mexico, he's known as 'our greatest seller'.
Well, I learned loads about this Santer Anner fella, but I still don't know much about Santa Anna unfortunately
WOW!!! You'd almost think that SW had a thing for Mexico - documentaries on Pancho Villa, Zapata, Porfirio Diaz and now Santa Ana. Wonderful ..., far better than any history lesson
Santa Ana's picture should be in the dictionary next to the word "Opportunist".
More like, “selfish”
his accent is so thick, perhaps is a way to make this a good commercial for the platform he advertises while trying to find the same content with a more neutral audio
Simon, can you do a video explaining why British folk like yourself add an “r” sound at the end of words that end in vowels when the following word begins with a vowel? You’ve done it several times in this video when you say “Santar Ranna.”
They just do
@@garretth8224 that’s very scientific. I’m satisfied now, thanks.
Honestly I'm British too with a not dissimilar accent to him (southern rp) and it was bugging me too. It's not a feature of the accent but I also wouldn't say it's just a quirk he has either, I think it's something people do when they struggle to separate the vowels by using a glottal stop (I think that's what I would do anyway? I'm saying santa anna aloud to figure out 😂).
@@AM-kr4pv It’s something I’ve been curious about for a long time. I’ve asked Simon to look into it and do a video on Today I Found Out many times. What’s interesting is that he says Santa Anna clearly without the r sounds a couple times during this video.
How is there no video on Sam Houston yet? Dude had an even better story than Santa Anna he even almost kept Texas out of the American Civil War.
Nop
He was Chaos incarnate
Make an episode about Vicente Guerrero! He abolished slavery in Mexico.
Is it weird, that one of the things I like about this video is the transition from paintings to photographs ?
please do
hugo banzer
joerge ubico
augustine sandino
augistin gammara and pedro of brazil
Some of these portraits of Santa Anna make him look like Prince.