At San Jacinto, Santa Anna still had the legs he was born with. Texans didn’t inflict the injury that necessitated the replacement, and Texans didn’t capture it or preserve it for 169 years.

Santa Anna's fake leg - a wood and cork affair outfitted with a leather boot - belongs to the Illinois State Military Museum in Springfield. And Spasic, in a light-hearted but public way, ...

St. Mary's University students on a bus trip intend to ask the state of Illinois to consider giving up an artifact it’s held onto for the last 169 years, and give it to Mexico.

Illinois has a message for some Texas college students: Hands off our leg. Last week, dozens of St. Mary’s University students went to Illinois to ask the state to return Gen. Antonio Santa Anna ...

Dozens of St. Mary’s University students traveled to Illinois to ask the state to give them an artifact it has had for the last 169 years — Gen. Antonio Santa Anna’s fake leg.

In 1838, when Mexico was at war with France, a French cannonball shot Santa Anna's left leg and a horse out from under him. The war wound bolstered Santa Anna's image, giving him the political ...

Guardino said Santa Anna, who was president of Mexico five times, held a full state funeral for his leg and had it buried in Mexico City in 1842. In 1844, when public opinion shifted, rioters tore ...

General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s artificial leg, made of cork and covered in leather, was crafted by Charles Bartlett, a former cabinet maker from New York City, and sold to the general for ...

The leg hasn’t been lent out in decades, if ever, Lear said. As eager as Texas is to display Santa Anna’s leg, Lear said it’s not clear that the prosthesis has even been in the Lone Star State.

The artificial leg in Springfield is the fanciest. Made of cork, wood, and leather, it has a black boot. Santa Anna had small feet. Two years after Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876) lost ...

You can see Santa Anna’s cork replacement leg at the Illinois State Military Museum in Springfield, ... The soldiers are fake, but the the leg is real. As real as a cork limb can be, anyway. ABOUT; ...