What’s more, Santa Anna lost again, for ever, when he was defeated by General Winfield Scott who conquered Mexico in total when he rode into Mexico City in a combined arms operation wherein the US Marines secured “The Halls Of Montezuma”
Scott is a forgotten American military genius, Wellington called Scott’s Veracruz to Mexico City campaign the most ‘brilliant military operation of the age!’.
I may be slightly misremembering the quote, but I think I accurately remember the spirit of it.