[RightWhale]

As far as Santa Anna was concerned, he didn't give a fig about Texas territory. It was a wag-the-dog action for him, a distraction from his fiscal mismanagment of the state coffers. There were so few people in Texas at the time that they couldn't have created a traffic jam if they all met at a single street intersection at one time.

[Poohbah]

Santa Ana had a statue of himself erected in Mexico City, with one arm upraised, pointing northward towards Texas. Wags in the capitol noted that he was also pointing to the National Mint :o)