His leg was amputated below the knee after he was wounded during a battle with French troops in December 1838.  
His leg was amputated below the knee after he was wounded during a battle with French troops in December 1838.  He kept the leg at his hacienda for 4 years, until 1842, when his supporters paraded his leg to the music of bands and laid it to rest in a shrine known as the Pantheon of Santa Paula.  2 years later, his leg was stolen during the riots that accompanied his fall from power.  FTP who was this Mexican general at the battle of the Alamo?
His leg was amputated below the knee after he was wounded during a battle with French troops in December 1838.  
Antonio de Santa Anna