Fall Antique and Decorative Art, Nov. 2nd
Lot 271:
Military Award, Battalion de Guanajuato signed by President of Mexico Santa Anna.Dated 1853. Antonio de Padua MarÃa Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876), [often known as Santa Anna[2] or López de Santa Anna, was a Mexican politician and general who fought to defend royalist New Spain and then fought for Mexican independence. He greatly influenced early Mexican politics and government, and he was an adept soldier and cunning politician who dominated Mexican history in the first half of the nineteenth century to such an extent that historians often refer to it as the "Age of Santa Anna."[3] He was called "the Man of Destiny" who "loomed over his time like a melodramatic colossus, the uncrowned monarch."[4] Santa Anna first opposed the movement for Mexican independence from Spain, but then fought in support of it. He was the earliest of the caudillos (military leaders) of modern Mexico, and he "represents the stereotypical caudillo in Mexican history". Lucas Alamán wrote that "the history of Mexico since 1822 might accurately be called the history of Santa Anna’s revolutions…. Dimensions: 21.25" x 15"
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