[FONT="]Finally the Americans won the war due to one and only one reason. Horse drawn artillery, aka-flying artillery. Mexico still relied on stable set position artillery; against the US movable artillery his was disastrous. The reason Mexico suffered so many casualties was not because they couldn’t fight, they never had a chance. The first battle of the war, the flying artillery completely blew up the Mexicans and killed hundreds. However undeterred the Mexicans advanced under such fire. Americans soldiers were stunned when they saw Mexican soldiers coming out of the slope. Seriously and in fact a division was almost about to cut off US forces but due to smoke (unlucky) the division came right in front of the artillery. Even then they fought on. Every battle where Mexico was prepared and ready the Americans had a friggin tough time winning. Even with their advantages. This I do not consider weak, tell me now Mexico had a great chance to win, they were plagued with internal revolts and horrible luck. Santa anna was a good general who suffered bad luck.[/FONT]
[FONT="]However I completely agree with everyone that anna was a douche, corrupt, egoistical asshole after he became dictator[/FONT]
[FONT="]before that he was mexicos only hope against the USA, during the war, he played polkout as he successfully reached mexico by fooling polk. He deserves credit.[/FONT]
[FONT="]At the battle of cerro gordo for excample santa anna had hthought the US would walk down the road and set up an perfect ambush. What happened was incredible bad luck, 26000 U dragoons advanced on the position and MExican troops opened fire, this gave awa their positio. tell me how was this Santa annas fault/ It wasn't. it was unexpected. Most of the campaign mexico fought tooth and nail, WHenever the mexicans werent unprepared they wreaked havoc. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Did you know a massive smear campaign was started against Santa anna was started. Throughout the war his enemies spread lies about ow he was dealing with america, e was losing on puprose, he was a traitor and a bastard. Arch, reason why you and most of mexico hate him was because of this hate campaign. In fact Anna played Polk, on his escape he promised polk he would negotiate but polk fell into his trap. As a general whenever he was prepared he almost won. He was no traitor. owever maybe why he is so hated is because of not the mexi american war, but his dictatorship. The gadson purchase I agree was stupid. Santa anna after becoming dictator turned into an asshole son of a bitch, corrupt man, however before his dictatorship he was one of mexicos smartest generals.[/FONT]