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SANTA ANNA, ANTONIO LOPEZ DE

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SANTA ANNA, ANTONIO LOPEZ DE
(1794 - 1876) Mexican general and politician, a President of Mexico who sought to crush the Texas Revolution, seizing the Alamo only be defeated by Sam Houston at San Jacinto. Excellent and especially rare war-date L.S. as President on the letterhead of Private Secretariat of the General-in-Chief of the Free Republican Army, 2pp. 4to., San Luis Potosi, Jan. 16, 1847 to Gen. Cosme Furlong in Puebla, in Spanish. In part; "...My old and esteemed friend...the commissary of this army received the order of payment for 1,600 pesos that you sent in his favor...from the commerce of Mexico City derived from donations made in that city. This amount has arrived very opportunely because the government has not sent me a single peso for a month which is the reason why the army is suffering from the most frightful poverty. I recommend to you that from now on all donations be sent directly to this commissary...thus the donors' will may be achieved. I have ordered that the commissary send you the corresponding certificate to meet his responsibility...please thank, in the name of the army, those patriotic citizens...command whatever you may wish from [me]...". While at the front, Santa Anna had left the government in the hand of Vice President Gomez Farias and after a year of was and administrative ineptitude, the nation's finances were in a ruinous state. Folds, otherwise near fine condition.