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1. Santa Anna headed the Mexican government on 11 occasions.

The decades following Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821 were plagued by political dysfunction. Both violent and nonviolent coups were regular occurrences, and the opportunistic Santa Anna took advantage of the instability.

He constantly changed with the political winds and declared himself at various times to be both conservative and liberal, democrat and dictator.

From 1833 to 1835, he served as Mexico’s president four times before becoming a military-backed dictator.

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Although disgraced after the Texas Revolution, Santa Anna staged a political resurrection and served as president seven more times between 1839 and 1855.

2. He proclaimed himself the 'Napoleon of the West.'

Santa Anna idolized another 19th-century figure who straddled the military and political spheres—French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Mexican general was a devout reader of Napoleonic biographies and an av