WI Santa Anna was a General of Napoleon's Calibre?

Well he's up against Winfield Scott argueably the greatest American general ever and at one point "the greatest general alive" in the words of the Duke of Wellington.
 
What them happens to the Mexican American War? Do Mexico still lose? If they do, do they lose as per OTL?

It would probably be averted, since he wouldn't have lost the Texas Revolution in the first place. Thus, there would be no dispute over the Rio Grande/Nueces border, and while Manifest Destiny people would obviously still be around they would have a somewhat harder time provoking war. So you would have a US with a lot less western territory, which would certainly be an interesting scenario to deal with.
 
What them happens to the Mexican American War? Do Mexico still lose? If they do, do they lose as per OTL?

Napoleon was a General of Napoleon calibre because he had a army of "Grande Armée" calibre and goods officers as Berthier as Chief of Staff, Davoult, Soult as Corps commanders and Murat as Cavalry leader.

Mexican army was an army were the officers corps was very bad and the soldiers were illiterate peasants conscripted by force and driven by whip...

After the republicans and after it imperial french army crushed every army in Europe severals time, Coalition monarchs began to take in consideration national and patriotic sentiments in their armies, Russia in 1812, Prussia in 1813, and these gave them victory...
 
Well he's up against Winfield Scott argueably the greatest American general ever and at one point "the greatest general alive" in the words of the Duke of Wellington.

Scott made a number of avoidable mistakes in the war with Mexico. The battle of Molino del Rey for example was a major fiasco that cost Scott about a thousand troops that he had no way to replace, for a fairly worthless objective. It also destroyed his relationship with General Worth. If Santa Anna had made better decisions, he definitely could have achieved victory in the Mexico City campaign.

Mexican army was an army were the officers corps was very bad and the soldiers were illiterate peasants conscripted by force and driven by whip...
It was a mix. There were some units that were untrained peasant conscripts, and others such as cavalry that were from the upper classes and were more motivated. A better leader would have ideally been able to drill some discipline into them. Or at least inspired them with a record of military victory. But even working with what was available a better military leader would have been able to win the day for Mexico. It was a lot closer a fight than people realize.
 
Please tell me that is either sarcasm or something which is totally untrue.

Of course, I can be wrong but Winfield Scott designed both plans for the Mexico campaign of 1846-1848 and the Anaconda Plan for the ACW, so he was a rather successful military commander for a rather not militaristic country as the USA was during the XIXth century...
 
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