Illinois museum officials say their Lone Star State counterparts have no leg to stand on as they seek a prosthesis from Springfield. The curator of the Illinois State Military Museum plans to keep ...

Santa Anna’s leg resides in the Illinois State Military Museum in Springfield, Ill. The rest of the general was interred in Mexico City. There are at least three of Santa Anna’s prosthetic legs: the ...

As you might expect, the San Jacinto Museum of History holds several items that once belonged to General Antonio López de Santa Anna - the Mexican leader who trounced the rebels at the Alamo only to ...

Illinois museum officials say their Lone Star State counterparts have no leg to stand on as they seek a prosthesis from Springfield. The curator of the Illinois State Military Museum plans to keep ...

Illinois has had Santa Anna’s leg for 169 years. I’m not kidding. It’s in a museum in Springfield, the home of Abraham Lincoln, who was harshly criticized for opposing the war on Mexico. He argued ...

AUSTIN — The petition to wrest Santa Anna’s leg from Illinois and bring it to Texas was flat-footed from the start. But Texas museum officials believe their heart was in the right place, even if that ...

The news we heard last week that the San Jacinto Museum in Texas covets Santa Anna's wooden leg is nothing new. Texas tried to get that leg from Springfield before, once with the help of their U.S.

In 1847, during the war between the U.S. and Mexico, Santa Anna was forced to flee quickly, leaving behind a bag of gold and his prosthetic leg. Illinois State Military Museum. In the poker-faced ...