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Encyclopedia > Santa Ana

Santa Ana is Spanish for "Saint Anne." It can refer to: This article is about the mother of the Virgin Mary. ...

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Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (February 21, 1794 – June 21, 1876), also known simply as Santa Anna, was a Mexican political leader who greatly influenced early Mexican and Spanish politics and government, first fighting against independence from Spain... Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947), is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist. ...

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  • "Santianna" (a.k.a. Santa Ana), a traditional folk song/sea-shanty

Also, Santiana, Santy Anna, Santayana, Santiano, Santy Anno and others. ...

Ships

  • Santa Ana (ship), a 16th century war ship of the Knights Hospitaller
  • A Manila galleon captured by Thomas Cavendish near Cape San Lucas, Baja California, in 1587. Since the pirates could not load all the booty on their ship, more than 400,000 pesos sunk with the burning galleon. Cavendish took some of the Santa Ana crew with him,, including Sebastián Vizcaíno and the Japanese Christopher and Cosmas.
  • A Spanish 112-gun, first rate ship of-the-line laid down at Ferrol in 1784. Captured at Trafalgar and taken in tow by Euryalus then Thunderer to be recaptured by the sortie from Cadiz on 23rd October 1805. Served until 1812.

Santa Anna Santa Anna was an early 16th Century carrack of the Knights Hospitaller. ... The Manila Galleons were Spanish galleons that sailed once or twice per year across the Pacific Ocean between Manila in the Philippines and Acapulco in New Spain (now Mexico). ... Thomas Cavendish (1555-1592) was born in Trimley St. ... The distinctive El Arco rock formation El Arco de Cabo San Lucas is a distinctive rock formation at the southern tip of Cabo San Lucas, which is itself the extreme southern end of Mexicos Baja California Peninsula. ... 1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548-1624) was a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Philippines, the Baja California peninsula, Alta California, and Japan. ... Christopher and Cosmas were two Japanese men, only known by their Christian names, who are recorded to have travelled across the Pacific on a Spanish galleon in 1587, and later accompanied the English navigator Thomas Cavendish to England, Brazil and the Southern Atlantic, where they disappeared with the sinking of... Ferrol can refer to: EUROPE Ferrol, Spain City and Naval Station in North Western Spain, European Union Note: Place of birth of both Francisco Franco (1892) the Spanish dictator and Pablo Iglesias (1850) founder of PSOE and UGT. ASIA Ferrol, Romblon Small Town in the Philippines Note: The Philippines got... Combatants United Kingdom First French Empire Kingdom of Spain Commanders Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson † Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve Strength 27 ships of the line and 6 others. ...

Places

Santa Ana is a town located in the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in the General Obligados Department, pertaining to the Municipality of Avellaneda. ... For other uses, see Santa Ana. ... Santa Ana is a city in San José Province, Costa Rica. ... Santa Ana is the second most important city in El Salvador, located at 64 kilometers west from San Salvador, the capital city. ... The Santa Ana Volcano or Ilamatepec (Spanish: volcán de Santa Ana) is a volcano located in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. ... Categories: Central America geography stubs | Departments of El Salvador ... Santa Ana is a small city capital of the municipio of the same name in the Mexican state of Sonora. ... Santa Ana is a 4th class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines. ... Sta, Ana is a district of the City of Manila in the Philippines, located at the southeast banks of the Pasig River, bounded on the northeast by Mandaluyong City, Makati City to the east, southwest is the Manila district of Paco, Manila and to the west, Pandacan. ... Santa Ana is a 4th class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. ... Location of Santa Ana within Orange County, California. ... Santa Ana Pueblo is a census-designated place located in Sandoval County, New Mexico. ... Santa Anna is a town located in Coleman County, Texas. ... The Santa Ana River begins in San Bernardino County, California in the San Bernardino National Forest. ... The Santa Ana winds in Southern California sweep down wide across the deserts and across the Los Angeles Basin pushing dust and smoke from wildfires far out into the Pacific Ocean. ...

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Santa Ana NWR (1482 words)
Along the banks of the lower Rio Grande is the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, a 2,088 acre refuge established in 1943 for the protection of migratory birds.
Santa Ana NWR's rarest raptors, the hook-billed kite and gray hawk, are seen occasionally on the refuge and attract birders from around the world.
The Friends of Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge is a nonprofit organization established to protect, support and enhance the Santa Ana and LRGV National Wildlife Refuges.
PBS - THE WEST - Antonio López de Santa Anna (591 words)
Santa Anna's repudiation of Mexico's 1824 constitution and substitution of a much more centralized and less democratic form of government was instrumental in sparking the Texas revolution, for it ultimately convinced both Anglo colonists and many Mexicans in Texas that they had nothing to gain by remaining under the Mexican government.
When the revolution came in 1835, Santa Anna personally led the Mexican counter-attack, enforcing a "take-no-prisoners" policy at the Alamo and ordering the execution of those captured at Goliad.
Although his failure to suppress the Texas revolution enormously discredited him, Santa Anna was able to reestablish much of his authority when he defeated a French invasion force at Vera Cruz in 1838.
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