[txhurl]

Actually, we captured him by accident: he was dressed pretty much like Saddam, when a guy found him in a swamp. When Santa Anna was taken before the other prisoners at San Jacinto, the prisoners saluting him and calling him El Presidente clued us to who we really had.

[vanmorrison]

That's true, but, again, the US did not capture Santa Anna. It was the Texicans, fighting to achieve their independence.