Elite Santa Anna's Mexican Army 1821-48 Osprey Books

This is the army that fought the Texans at the Alamo and San Jacinto, and at the end of our proposed coverage was poised to fight the US in the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. It was far from negligible, and on the eve of the latter war a correspondent from the London Times judged it superior to the US Army. That it did not prove to be so was perhaps in large part due to the failings of its major commander during this period, General (later President) Santa Anna, 'the Napoleon of the West', who became notorious in the USA. The Mexican Army was based on contemporary European models, so the uniforms were varied and colourful, basically 'Napoleonic' but with exotic local touches.