CLASSIC: How Santa Anna Lost His Leg Twice, and Held a Funeral for It

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Often called "The Napoleon of the West", mainly by himself, Santa Anna was a legendary, larger-than-life politician, general and exile. While hundreds of stories have been told about this man, one in particular stood out to Ben and Noel: Santa Anna lost his leg not once, but twice to enemy forces. And, once upon a time, he held an elaborate funeral for his fallen leg. Learn more about this bizarre, true story in this week's Classic episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to our classic episode for this week, fellow ridiculous historians.
0:03.9	Now, Santa Ana was a lot of things to a lot of people.
0:08.7	He was larger than life.
0:10.0	He was a legend, a general, an exile.
0:12.7	He was also a guy who was very bad at keeping his legs with him.
0:17.9	I stole Sandy Annie's leg.
0:20.1	I just looked at the hashtags or the keywords for this episode. And King sannie Annie's leg. I just
0:20.8	looked at the hashtags or the keywords
0:22.5	for this episode and King of the Hill is
0:24.5	definitely on there. So I know we talk about
0:26.8	Cotton Hill and his
0:28.7	leg shenanigans in this
0:30.7	episode. That's one of my favorite episodes
0:32.5	of television. Santa Ana,
0:34.7	the real life guy, not
0:36.3	lost his leg, not just once, but twice.
0:40.9	And in this classic episode,
0:42.9	we don't even want to spoil it.
0:44.4	Yeah, that's too good.
0:45.2	What a ride.
0:46.4	Uh-huh.
0:47.0	Ride along with us, fellow ridiculous historians.
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