{"title":"The Alamo - Toy Soldiers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe thirteen-day siege of the Alamo ended before dawn on 6 March 1836, when Santa Anna's columns stormed the walls of the old Spanish mission and its roughly two hundred defenders were overwhelmed. This collection gathers the figures of that fight in matching 1\/30 scale — about 60mm — from W. Britain and King \u0026amp; Country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Texian side are the men who held the walls: David Crockett and his Tennessee long-rifles, the knife-fighter James Bowie, Colonel William B. Travis of the \"Victory or Death\" letter, and the grey-clad volunteers of the New Orleans Greys. On the Mexican side stands Santa Anna's army — line infantry loading and firing, the laddermen and assault troops, drummers, a sapper, the fallen, and the general himself both mounted and on foot. Scenic pieces like The New Alamo Facade turn a shelf of figures into a full diorama of the siege and the storming.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-duelists","title":"The Duelists","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow Colonel William Travis died has two tellings. In the better-documented one, drawn from his slave Joe's account, he was shot through the head early in the assault as he fired down from the north-wall battery. The other is the one this set stages: that Travis, his weapon empty, drew his sabre and crossed blades with a Mexican officer who had gained the wall, holding him off in a brief hand-to-hand fight before he was bayonetted. The two versions are not really rivals — a man shot in the head might well have swung a sabre first — and both have been told since 1836. What they share is the picture of the young commander fighting at the wall he had refused to surrender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's two-figure set \"The Duelists\" freezes that sabre fight — Travis in a blue frontier coat and grey wide-brimmed hat, lunging with his blade, against a Mexican officer in a gold-laced blue coatee, red sash, and shako, the two crossing swords on separate groundwork bases. This is a slightly smaller 54mm set rather than the 60mm of the main Alamo range, and it is now retired. It pairs with the other portraits of the same man — W. Britain's \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/william-b-travis\"\u003eWilliam B. Travis\u003c\/a\u003e and King \u0026amp; Country's \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/gallant-colonel-travis\"\u003eGallant Colonel Travis\u003c\/a\u003e — and set before \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-alamo-facade-1\"\u003eThe New Alamo Facade\u003c\/a\u003e it stages the north-wall duel at the centre of a Travis diorama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA095 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 54mm scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set \/ retired — this example in excellent condition with its original box\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43252935557348,"sku":"RTA095","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/D47A1F06-EAEF-47EB-8DB9-86CC7A7782B8.heic?v=1762532093"},{"product_id":"mexican-infantry-drummer-1836","title":"Mexican Infantry Drummer, 1836","description":"\u003cp\u003eA drum ran a soldier's entire day, not just his battles. Reveille turned the camp out at dawn; through the day the drum beat the calls to assembly, to meals, to fatigue duty, and to church, and the tattoo sent the men to their tents at night. On the march and in action the same instrument carried the orders — the advance, the halt, the retreat, the rally — that a voice could never reach across a regiment. A drummer had to know dozens of these calls and their rudiments by heart and beat them cleanly under any conditions, which took years to learn. Most began the training young, and a good drummer was a valued man in any army, the Mexican forces at the Alamo included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain's figure shows the drummer in the musician's \"reverse colours\" — a red tunic where the line wore blue, faced at collar and cuffs in blue, with white crossbelts and a brass drum-carriage plate, white trousers, and a black shako plated in brass and topped with a red plume. He beats a deep-shelled snare drum, sticks caught mid-stroke, the shell painted with red hoops. A drummer stood near his officer and the colours, which made him a rallying point in the noise — and a target. Post him with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/mexican-infantry-no-1\"\u003eMexican Infantry No. 1\u003c\/a\u003e under the eye of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna-1836\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e, or set him beside King \u0026amp; Country's \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-i-drummer-advancing\"\u003eS.A.I. Drummer Advancing\u003c\/a\u003e to field two drummers in one Alamo diorama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: 10123 \/ W. Britain \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43820925747428,"sku":"10123","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10123BackgroundMexDrum_E52FDD9A3A690.jpg?v=1762539024"},{"product_id":"mexican-infantry-pioneer-1838","title":"Mexican Infantry Pioneer, 1838","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pioneer — sapper, or engineer — did the army's most dangerous manual work. In a formal siege it was the sappers who dug the approach trenches, the zig-zag saps that let attackers crawl toward a fortress wall under constant fire, and who breached obstacles, felled timber, and cleared the way for the assault. The work was deadly enough that sappers were treated as an elite: they drew extra danger pay, marched at the head of the column, and were traditionally the only soldiers allowed to grow the full beard this figure wears. Santa Anna's Zapadores were among the troops committed at the Alamo on 6 March 1836, sent forward when the assault hung in the balance at the walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain's figure is unmistakably a pioneer. He wears the tall shako with a red plume and a dark blue coatee with red facings, but the marks of his trade set him apart: a full beard, the crossed-axe badge on his sleeve, a white work apron over his white trousers, and an axe carried on his back alongside his bayoneted musket, with a short sapper's sword at his hip. Fall him in with W. Britain's \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/mexican-infantry-no-1\"\u003eMexican Infantry No. 1\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/mexican-infantry-drummer-1836\"\u003eMexican Infantry Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e, under \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna-1836\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e, to build a Mexican line detachment with its own sapper for an Alamo diorama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: 10122 \/ W. Britain \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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This is an excellant alternative to fully painted versions of the chess sets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ewooden chess case\u003c\/strong\u003e has a built-in board and two drawers with foam protection for all the chess pieces to be safely stored away when being carried.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScale is 54mm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Breagans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43950954348772,"sku":"CS11S","price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/alamo-chess-AF-2.webp?v=1762541864"},{"product_id":"lt-col-david-crocket","title":"Lt. Col. David Crocket","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is toy soldier Lieutenant Col. David Crocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e54mm \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Regal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44302469693668,"sku":"Regal_1","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/IMG_0809.jpg?v=1699571509"},{"product_id":"lt-col-william-travis","title":"Lt Col William Travis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is toy soldier Lt. Col. William Travis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e54mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Regal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44309099610340,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/IMG_0806.jpg?v=1699738043"},{"product_id":"david-crockett-at-the-alamo","title":"David Crockett at The Alamo, 1836","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the Alamo's defenders divided the perimeter among them, David Crockett and his Tennessee volunteers drew the palisade — the low wooden stockade and earthwork spanning the gap between the chapel and the main gate on the compound's southeast side, the weakest stretch of the whole line. A former Congressman who had lost his seat and ridden west telling his voters they could go to the devil while he went to Texas, Crockett reached San Antonio in February 1836 with a handful of mounted Tennesseans and their long rifles. Through the thirteen-day siege his marksmen made the open ground before the palisade deadly for any Mexican soldier who tried to cross it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain's figure shows Crockett on watch rather than in the fight — the long flintlock rifle cradled upright in both hands, its butt resting against his hip. He wears a plain brown frontier coat open over a figured waistcoat and a dark neckcloth, olive-green trousers, and worn boots, a powder horn and hunting pouch slung at his side; he is bareheaded, hair to the collar, the coonskin-cap caricature set aside for the working dress of a Tennessee hunter. He stands on a sandy base strewn with broken masonry — the rubble of the Alamo walls. Set him alongside \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/william-b-travis\"\u003eWilliam B. Travis\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/james-bowie-at-the-alamo\"\u003eJames Bowie\u003c\/a\u003e for the defenders' command trio, with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna-1836\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e and his columns pressing the walls beyond, and the group builds into a diorama of the siege's final days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: 10063 \/ W. Britain \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45873426464996,"sku":"10063","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/David_Crockett.webp?v=1734042931"},{"product_id":"james-bowie-at-the-alamo","title":"James Bowie at The Alamo, 1836","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Bowie was famous for his knife before Texas ever made him famous for the Alamo. On 19 September 1827, on a sandbar in the Mississippi near Natchez, a formal duel dissolved into a brawl; Bowie, shot through and stabbed, killed his man with a heavy-bladed knife, and the newspapers carried the story until every frontier smith was forging copies of the \"Bowie knife.\" He came to Texas as a land speculator, married into a prominent Béxar family, and by 1836 commanded the volunteers inside the Alamo. Illness put him in a cot before the final assault, but the legend held that he fought from it to the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain's figure shows Bowie in civilian frontier dress rather than uniform — he held no regular army commission. A black broad-brimmed hat, a mustard-tan tailcoat over a pale waistcoat, a black stock at the collar, dark trousers, and brown boots; at his belt the sheathed knife that carries his name, a pistol alongside it. He rests a long sheathed blade point-down in his left hand and holds a cigar in his raised right, at his ease. Stand him with fellow commanders \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/david-crockett-at-the-alamo\"\u003eDavid Crockett\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/william-b-travis\"\u003eWilliam B. Travis\u003c\/a\u003e for an Alamo command-group diorama, or place him among the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/new-orleans-greys\"\u003eNew Orleans Greys\u003c\/a\u003e and other volunteers he commanded inside the walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModel: 10065 \/ W. Britain \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45873441636580,"sku":"10065","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/James_Bowie.webp?v=1734043056"},{"product_id":"william-b-travis","title":"William B. Travis, 1836","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 24 February 1836, the second day of the siege, William B. Travis sat down inside the Alamo and wrote an appeal addressed \"To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World.\" Santa Anna had demanded surrender at discretion; Travis answered with a cannon shot and put it in writing that he would \"never surrender or retreat.\" He closed with the words \"Victory or Death\" and sent riders out through the Mexican lines to carry it to the settlements. A twenty-six-year-old lawyer who had come to Texas a step ahead of his creditors, Travis had held command of the Alamo's regulars for only a few weeks when he wrote the most famous letter in Texas history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain's figure gives Travis the cavalryman's bearing — a curved sabre held point-down in each hand, chin up, watching the walls. He wears the dark blue coatee of the Texian regulars with gold buttons and a black stock at the throat, a broad crimson sash knotted at the waist with its tassel at the hip, white trousers, black boots, and white gloves; the wide pale-felt hat is the practical field wear of a Texas officer, not a dress shako. Stand him with fellow commanders \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/david-crockett-at-the-alamo\"\u003eDavid Crockett\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/james-bowie-at-the-alamo\"\u003eJames Bowie\u003c\/a\u003e for an Alamo command-post diorama, or set him beside King \u0026amp; Country's \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/gallant-colonel-travis\"\u003eGallant Colonel Travis\u003c\/a\u003e as a second portrait of the same man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: 10057 \/ W. Britain \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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A line infantryman was drilled to load, fire, and move on command as part of a mass; his value lay less in his own marksmanship than in doing all of it in ranks, shoulder to shoulder with the men beside him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain's figure shows the line infantryman in proper full dress, at rest with his bayoneted musket grounded at his right side — the clean version of the uniform, before a campaign wore it down. He wears a tall black shako with a brass plate, a dark blue coatee with red collar, cuffs, and lapels, white crossbelts crossed by a brass plate, and white trousers over brown shoes. Fall him in with W. Britain's \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/mexican-infantry-drummer-1836\"\u003eMexican Infantry Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/mexican-infantry-pioneer-1838\"\u003eMexican Infantry Pioneer\u003c\/a\u003e, under \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna-1836\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e, to build a Mexican line detachment for an Alamo diorama in matching 60mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: 10064 \/ W. Britain \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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The imperial self-image held for exactly six more weeks: on 21 April, Sam Houston's Texians overran his camp at San Jacinto in about eighteen minutes, and the Napoleon of the West was taken the next day in a borrowed private's coat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain's figure is Santa Anna in full dress — the costume of a man who meant to be seen: a dark blue coatee smothered in gold bullion at the collar and cuffs, scarlet facings, heavy gold epaulettes, a crimson general's sash and a pale-blue sash across the chest, an elaborately embroidered sabretache at the hip, white breeches, and tall black boots. His headgear is a gold-laced cocked hat crowned with a tall white-and-red plume — a bicorne in the Napoleonic manner, not the shako the catalogue copy names. A curved sabre hangs at his side as he draws on his white gloves. Place him behind \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marching-to-battle-set-a\"\u003eMarching to Battle (Set A)\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e to build the assault-column diorama he commanded, with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/william-b-travis\"\u003eWilliam B. Travis\u003c\/a\u003e waiting on the wall opposite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: 10056 \/ W. Britain \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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It hangs in Mexico to this day, the only banner recovered from the battle, and Texas has asked for it back more than once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain's figure wears the uniform that gave the unit its name — a plain grey wool round jacket and grey trousers cut from US Army surplus, white crossbelts with a brass plate across the chest, and a buff cartridge box at the hip. His headgear is a soft dark peaked forage cap, not the shako of a regular; he carries a long rifle with a fixed bayonet, its butt grounded, and stands at the ready, watching the line. Post him on the walls beside \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/william-b-travis\"\u003eWilliam B. Travis\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/james-bowie-at-the-alamo\"\u003eJames Bowie\u003c\/a\u003e for an Alamo-defenders diorama, with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna-1836\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e — the man who took the Greys' flag as a trophy — closing in beyond the walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: 10196 \/ W. Britain \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46088855388388,"sku":"10196","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/10196_Background_New_Orleans_Greys__1CF6FA6042B88.webp?v=1740178496"},{"product_id":"the-davey-crockett-set","title":"The Davey Crockett Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo one knows for certain how David Crockett died, and the argument has run for nearly two centuries. The version this set portrays is the oldest and best loved: Crockett on his feet to the last, ammunition gone, swinging his long rifle by the barrel like a club amid a ring of fallen enemies. Against it stands the account of a Mexican officer, José Enrique de la Peña, whose memoir describes Crockett as one of a small group taken alive and then executed on Santa Anna's order after the fighting stopped. Both versions have their defenders among historians. What is certain is that Crockett died at the Alamo on 6 March 1836, and that his fame only grew afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's three-figure set stages that last-stand legend: Crockett in a fringed buckskin hunting frock and red sash, his long rifle swung up over his head by the barrel to club the men coming at him, two Mexican soldados already falling — one flung backward, one down at his feet — with their bayoneted muskets scattered across the groundwork. Set it in front of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-alamo-facade-1\"\u003eThe New Alamo Facade\u003c\/a\u003e beside \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/gallant-colonel-travis\"\u003eGallant Colonel Travis\u003c\/a\u003e for the centre of an Alamo last-stand diorama, or place it next to W. Britain's standing \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/david-crockett-at-the-alamo\"\u003eDavid Crockett\u003c\/a\u003e to show the same man before the walls were breached and after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA094 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 3 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47900667740388,"sku":"RTA094","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA094.jpg?v=1770934337"},{"product_id":"the-new-alamo-facade-1","title":"The New Alamo Facade","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe building everyone pictures as \"the Alamo\" is the mission church, and its most famous feature is younger than the battle. In 1836 the church was a roofless ruin, its walls broken and its facade squared off at the top; the graceful curved gable — the \"hump\" that makes the silhouette instantly recognizable — was added in 1850, when the US Army re-roofed the building for use as a supply depot. During the siege the church was the garrison's strongpoint and powder magazine, the sturdiest structure inside the compound, and it was here, in the last minutes of 6 March 1836, that some of the final defenders fell back to make their stand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's \"New Alamo Facade\" is the latest of the firm's several sculpts of the front, measuring about 15½ inches wide by 9 high — the curved gable, the arched central doorway, the four columned niches with their saints, and the upper and lower windows, all rendered in deeply cut, weathered limestone texture. As a scenic piece it is built to be the backdrop everything else plays against. Line the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-davey-crockett-set\"\u003eDavey Crockett Set\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/gallant-colonel-travis\"\u003eGallant Colonel Travis\u003c\/a\u003e along its wall with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e coming at it, and the facade turns a shelf of figures into a full Alamo last-stand diorama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA092 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ scenic facade accessory, approx. 15½ inches wide × 9 inches high\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47929101517028,"sku":"RTA092","price":199.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/12782_m.jpg?v=1771541222"},{"product_id":"general-santa-anna","title":"General Santa Anna","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the first week of March 1836 the Alamo was nearly finished without a fight. The garrison was cut off, low on everything, and no relief was coming; a few more days of siege would very likely have forced a surrender. Some of Santa Anna's officers urged him to wait. He refused. He wanted the fort taken by storm — a swift, terrible example that would break the nerve of the whole Texian rebellion — and he ordered the assault for the pre-dawn hours of 6 March. It worked, and it cost him: the storming of a ruined mission held by fewer than 250 men killed and wounded hundreds of his own, gutting the columns he would need six weeks later at San Jacinto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure gives Santa Anna mounted and directing, his right arm flung out to point his columns at the walls. He rides a black stallion in full dress uniform — a gold-laced dark blue coatee with red facings and heavy gold epaulettes, a pale-blue sash, white breeches, tall boots, and a plumed bicorne — the horse furnished with an ornate gold-edged blue shabraque. Set him on a rise behind \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marching-to-battle-set-a\"\u003eMarching to Battle (Set A)\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e as the commander who launched them, the mounted centrepiece of an Alamo assault diorama — or stand him beside W. Britain's dismounted \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna-1836\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e as the same man on foot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA001 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ mounted figure — horse and rider\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732918022372,"sku":"RTA001","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA001.jpg?v=1776190611"},{"product_id":"marching-to-battle-set-a","title":"Marching to Battle (Set A)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSanta Anna's advance guard marched into San Antonio de Béxar on 23 February 1836, and the Texian garrison pulled back behind the Alamo's walls ahead of them. What followed was not one battle but thirteen days of siege. The Mexican army closed a ring around the old mission, pushing artillery batteries a little nearer each night, keeping up a bombardment meant to wear the defenders down and rob them of sleep. Patrols cut the roads and the river approaches so that no large relief could get in and no one could easily get out. The columns that would storm the walls on 6 March spent those days marching, digging, and standing to in the cold — the unglamorous work that fills the space between a war's famous moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's Set A gives the first pair of the marching column — two soldados mid-stride, bayoneted muskets on the shoulder, packs and rolled blankets on their backs. They wear the Mexican line uniform with red facings, white crossbelts and brass plates, a gourd canteen and cartridge box at the hip, and white trousers torn and grey from the road, on huarache sandals. Pair them with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marching-to-battle-set-b\"\u003eMarching to Battle (Set B)\u003c\/a\u003e and put \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-i-drummer-advancing\"\u003eS.A.I. Drummer Advancing\u003c\/a\u003e at the head to build the column, then run it toward the wall where \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e are going in — a marching-to-assault diorama in one continuous line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA125 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733041918180,"sku":"RTA125","price":97.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/rta125_2.jpg?v=1776194061"},{"product_id":"marching-to-battle-set-b","title":"Marching to Battle (Set B)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSanta Anna did not send his men at the Alamo in a single mass. On the night of 5 March 1836 he split the assault force into four columns to strike the fort from four sides at once — Cós from the northwest, Duque's column from the north, Romero from the east, and Morales against the low south wall and the main gate — with a reserve held back under his own hand. The columns marched out in the dark hours after midnight and lay down in the cold within musket range of the walls, waiting for the bugle. For men who had crossed half of Mexico to get there, the last few hundred yards were made lying still in the frost, watching for the signal to rise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's Set B adds a second pair to the marching column — two soldados striding forward in step, bayoneted muskets shouldered, faces set for the walls ahead. They wear the Mexican line uniform with red facings, white crossbelts and brass plates, tan haversacks and rolled blankets, their white trousers already stained from the road, on huarache sandals. Fall them in behind \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marching-to-battle-set-a\"\u003eMarching to Battle (Set A)\u003c\/a\u003e with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-i-drummer-advancing\"\u003eS.A.I. Drummer Advancing\u003c\/a\u003e beating time at the head and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e directing from the flank, and the sets build a marching-column diorama of the army closing on the Alamo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA126 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733270933732,"sku":"RTA126","price":97.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/rta126_2.jpg?v=1776198496"},{"product_id":"santa-annas-laddermen","title":"Santa Anna's Laddermen","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn escalade — storming a wall with scaling ladders — was among the deadliest tasks a soldier could be given. The laddermen went first, hands full and weapons useless, straight at the defenders' fire, to plant the ladders others would climb. Santa Anna had ladders prepared for the assault on the Alamo, but in the dark and the crush of 6 March 1836 many were dropped, too short, or never brought up at all. The columns piled against the base of the walls unable to climb, taking fire, until men found their way over the north wall — its battered face patched with earth and timber that gave hand- and footholds where the ladders had failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's two-figure set shows the ladder party at a dead run — the lead man leaning into the weight with his mouth open in effort, his partner close behind, the wooden ladder braced between them and their bayoneted muskets carried awkwardly across their bodies. Both wear the Mexican line uniform with red facings, white crossbelts, and tan haversacks, their white trousers torn and grey, on huarache sandals. Run them at the wall behind \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-a-soldier-charging-forward\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Charging Forward\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-shouting-soldier\"\u003eSanta Anna's Shouting Soldier\u003c\/a\u003e, with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-casualties-of-battle\"\u003eSanta Anna's Casualties of Battle\u003c\/a\u003e already fallen at the base, and the escalade builds into the centerpiece of an Alamo assault diorama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA127 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733291118820,"sku":"RTA127","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/rta127_2.jpg?v=1776199109"},{"product_id":"santa-annas-shouting-soldier","title":"Santa Anna's Shouting Soldier","description":"\u003cp\u003eSanta Anna meant the assault to be silent. The columns were to form in the dark and cross the open ground without a sound, catching the garrison asleep before the first shot. It did not hold. As the men neared the walls in the cold small hours of 6 March 1836, the tension broke and soldiers began to shout — \"¡Viva Santa Anna!\", \"¡Viva la República!\" — and bugles and cheering rolled up out of the dark. The noise woke the Alamo. An officer of the guard on the north wall heard it, roused the garrison, and the first Texian volleys were already tearing into the columns before they reached the ditch. The shouting cost the attackers the surprise they had counted on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure is all motion — advancing at a half-run, his left arm flung up and his mouth open in a shout, the bayoneted musket carried low in his right hand. He wears the Mexican line uniform with red facings and white piping, red wings at the shoulders, white crossbelts and a cartridge box, a red blanket-roll and gourd canteen at his hip, campaign trousers torn and filthy from the march, and huarache sandals. Put him at the center of the charge, urging \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-a-soldier-charging-forward\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Charging Forward\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-a-soldier-running-forward\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Running Forward\u003c\/a\u003e toward the wall where \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e are raising their ladders — the makings of an assault diorama caught at its loudest moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA128 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733321068772,"sku":"RTA128","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/rta128_2.jpg?v=1776200565"},{"product_id":"santa-annas-soldier-reaching-for-a-fresh-cartridge","title":"Santa Anna's Soldier Reaching for a Fresh Cartridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe soldier reaching for another cartridge had already survived the hardest part of the campaign — getting to Texas at all. Santa Anna drove his army more than eight hundred miles north from central Mexico through the winter of 1835–36, across arid tableland and into a late-February norther, and hundreds died of cold, hunger, and disease before they ever saw the Alamo. Many in the ranks were conscripts and raw recruits, some of them Maya-speaking men from the Yucatán who understood little of the Spanish commands shouted at them. Women — the soldaderas — followed the columns, carrying loads, cooking, and nursing the sick. The men who reached San Antonio were tired long before the assault began.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure is caught mid-stride, reaching back to the cartridge box at his hip for a fresh round while his bayoneted musket stays forward in his other hand. He wears the Mexican line uniform — a dark blue coatee with red lapels, collar, and cuffs in white piping, a red worsted wing at the shoulder, white crossbelts and a brass plate — with a gourd canteen and cartridge box at his side, campaign trousers torn and grey with dust, and huarache sandals. He opens the loading cycle: set him ahead of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-soldier-biting-open-a-fresh-cartridge\"\u003eSanta Anna's Soldier Biting Open a Fresh Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-soldier-using-his-ramrod\"\u003eSanta Anna's Soldier using His Ramrod\u003c\/a\u003e, with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-a-soldier-advancing-firing\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Advancing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e completing the sequence, for a firing-line diorama that runs the full drill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA129 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733425729764,"sku":"RTA129","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA129.jpg?v=1776202175"},{"product_id":"santa-annas-soldier-biting-open-a-fresh-cartridge","title":"Santa Anna's Soldier Biting Open a Fresh Cartridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eLoading a flintlock musket was a drill of nine or ten separate motions, and it began at the teeth. Each paper cartridge held a measured charge of powder and a lead ball; the soldier bit the twisted end open, tipped a little into the priming pan, poured the rest down the barrel, and rammed ball and paper home before he could present and fire. A trained man managed perhaps three rounds a minute. Santa Anna's infantry carried British-surplus \"Brown Bess\" muskets and powder of famously poor quality, which sent many of their volleys high; when the columns reached the Alamo walls before dawn on 6 March 1836, much of the close work was done with the bayonet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure shows the soldado at the third step of the drill, biting the twisted end from a fresh cartridge, his bayoneted musket held ready in his left hand. He wears the Mexican line uniform — a dark blue coatee with red collar, cuffs, and lapels, white crossbelts over the chest, a black shako with a brass plate and a red-white-green pompom — with a canteen slung at his hip and white campaign trousers gone grey at the hems. Tellingly, he fights in huarache sandals rather than boots, as many of Santa Anna's conscripts did on the long march north. Line him up with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-soldier-reaching-for-a-fresh-cartridge\"\u003eSanta Anna's Soldier Reaching for a Fresh Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-soldier-using-his-ramrod\"\u003eSanta Anna's Soldier using His Ramrod\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-a-soldier-advancing-firing\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Advancing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e to build a firing-line diorama that runs the whole load-and-fire cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA130 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733596156132,"sku":"RTA130","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/rta130_2.jpg?v=1776203372"},{"product_id":"santa-annas-soldier-using-his-ramrod","title":"Santa Anna's Soldier using His Ramrod","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most dangerous moment in a firefight was the one this figure is caught in. To reload, a soldier had to stand, draw the long steel ramrod from beneath the barrel, and drive the ball and cartridge home — several seconds with an empty weapon and his body upright and exposed. Under fire, men fumbled it: ramrods were dropped in the dark, bent, or fired off down-range by mistake, leaving the musket useless. When Santa Anna's columns crowded against the Alamo's walls before dawn on 6 March 1836, packed too close to maneuver, the soldiers in the press had to load and fire shoulder to shoulder, and a dropped ramrod could not be found again in that crush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure has drawn his ramrod and is driving a charge home, the musket held upright against his body. He wears the Mexican line uniform — dark blue coatee with red collar, cuffs, and lapels in white piping, white crossbelts with a brass plate, a black shako with a red-white-green pompom — a gourd canteen and a buff cartridge pouch at his side, white campaign trousers stained from the road, and huarache sandals. He is the middle beat of the loading cycle: line him between \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-soldier-reaching-for-a-fresh-cartridge\"\u003eSanta Anna's Soldier Reaching for a Fresh Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-soldier-biting-open-a-fresh-cartridge\"\u003eSanta Anna's Soldier Biting Open a Fresh Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e, with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-a-soldier-advancing-firing\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Advancing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e at the end, and a firing-line diorama runs the whole drill from cartridge to shot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA131 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733792010468,"sku":"RTA131","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA131.jpg?v=1776204028"},{"product_id":"s-a-i-drummer-advancing","title":"S.A.I. Drummer Advancing","description":"\u003cp\u003eA nineteenth-century battlefield ran on sound as much as sight. An infantry regiment took its orders from drum and bugle — the long roll to form up, the beat that set the marching pace, the calls that wheeled a column or halted it — and the drummer's steady cadence held a formation together in smoke thick enough to hide the man at your shoulder. When Santa Anna's four columns moved on the Alamo in the cold dark before dawn on 6 March 1836, they stepped off to the drums, some 1,800 men closing on the walls in the last minutes before the firing began. Regimental musicians were often boys, marching unarmed in the ranks with everyone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure catches the drummer in mid-stride, sticks in hand and the drum swinging at his hip. He wears the musician's \"reverse colours\" — a red coatee where the line wore blue, its collar and cuffs faced in dark blue, the sleeves laced with white chevrons that marked the bandsman — with white crossbelts, a brass drum-carriage plate on the chest, and a black shako topped by a red-white-green pompom in the national colours. The drum has a brass shell and red-painted hoops; his white trousers are torn through at one knee from the campaign road. Set him at the head of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marching-to-battle-set-a\"\u003eMarching to Battle (Set A)\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marching-to-battle-set-b\"\u003eMarching to Battle (Set B)\u003c\/a\u003e to build a marching-column diorama, beating the advance for \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e's infantry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA139 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48734204690660,"sku":"RTA139","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/rta139_2.jpg?v=1776205727"},{"product_id":"s-a-i-kneeling-soldier-firing-upwards","title":"S.A.I. 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He wears the Mexican line uniform — a dark blue coatee with red collar, cuffs, and lapels picked out in white piping, white crossbelts and a brass plate, a black shako with a red-white-green pompom — with a gourd canteen at his hip, white campaign trousers torn at the knee, and huarache sandals. Set him in a firing line with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-soldier-biting-open-a-fresh-cartridge\"\u003eSanta Anna's Soldier Biting Open a Fresh Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-soldier-using-his-ramrod\"\u003eSanta Anna's Soldier using His Ramrod\u003c\/a\u003e, with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e going up the wall above, for a diorama of the assault at the moment it reached the base of the Alamo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA141 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737859961060,"sku":"RTA141","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/rta141_2.jpg?v=1776267730"},{"product_id":"santa-annas-casualties-of-battle","title":"Santa Anna's Casualties of Battle","description":"\u003cp\u003eVictory at the Alamo cost Santa Anna more than he admitted. His pre-dawn assault on 6 March 1836 sent roughly 1,800 men against a garrison of fewer than 250, and it went hard. The columns lost formation in the dark and bunched against the north wall; men were hit by fire from their own crowded ranks as well as by the defenders' cannon, which were loaded with scrap iron and cut swaths through the attackers. Estimates of the Mexican dead and wounded run from several hundred to well over five hundred. Santa Anna waved the losses away as a trifle, but his own officers understood they had traded some of the army's best soldiers for a single ruined mission — six weeks before San Jacinto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's set gives four fallen soldados, sprawled where the volley and the canister caught them at the foot of the walls. They wear the Mexican line uniform — dark blue coatees with red facings over white campaign trousers — and their muskets and bayonets lie scattered around them, shakos with their red-white-green pompoms rolled off into the dirt. Placed at the base of a wall with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e still climbing and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-a-soldier-charging-forward\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Charging Forward\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/s-a-a-soldier-advancing-firing\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Advancing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e pressing on behind, the set turns a firing-line diorama into the assault as it actually looked — the cost lying in the front rank while the attack goes forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA143 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 4 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737873199332,"sku":"RTA143","price":179.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA143.jpg?v=1776268333"},{"product_id":"s-a-a-soldier-running-forward","title":"S.A.A. Soldier Running Forward","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Mexican infantry's run for the Alamo walls began before dawn on March 6, 1836. Santa Anna had ordered the assault for five in the morning, and four columns of regulars and presidiales moved forward in the dark — Cos and Duque against the north wall where the Texans had patched the breach with timber, Romero against the east, Morales against the south — with the elite zapadores and grenadiers held back as a reserve under Santa Anna's hand. The first two waves were broken at the foot of the walls by close-range musketry and the defenders' cannon firing canister at point-blank range. The third attempt got over the north wall around six o'clock, supported by the reserves Santa Anna fed forward. The fight inside the compound lasted another half hour, and by half past six the defenders were all dead. The cost to Santa Anna's army was around six hundred killed and wounded — far higher than his official report admitted, and a price the regular battalions like the Toluca and the San Luis Potosí would feel keenly in the campaign that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis King \u0026amp; Country figure shows a Mexican line infantryman in mid-charge — left foot driving forward, bayonet leveled, musket gripped low across the body in the charging position. He wears the Mexican infantry regulation order of 1836: tall black shako with brass eagle plate, yellow band, and the green-white-red pompom of the Mexican national colors; dark blue coatee with red collar, cuffs, and turnbacks; white cross-belts supporting cartridge box and bayonet scabbard; white trousers rolled at the ankle. The huarache sandals at his feet are the diagnostic detail — Mexican line infantry of the campaign was as often shod in leather sandals as in boots, a function of the army's supply system rather than the regulations. He runs in the same assault column as \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e carrying their scaling ladders forward to the walls and the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-shouting-soldier\"\u003eSanta Anna's Shouting Soldier\u003c\/a\u003e calling the line on, under the overall command of \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e himself directing the attack from the reserve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: RTA145 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49082700955876,"sku":"RTA145","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA145_1.jpg?v=1780607164"},{"product_id":"s-a-a-soldier-advancing-firing","title":"S.A.A. Soldier Advancing Firing","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe musket in this soldier's hands was almost certainly British. The Mexican Army of 1836 was largely armed with India Pattern Brown Bess flintlocks purchased as surplus from Britain after the Napoleonic Wars — a .75-caliber smoothbore that had served the British line from the 1790s through Waterloo and across the colonial garrisons of the postwar empire. By the time the Mexican government bought them out in the 1820s, many of the muskets were already a generation old and well-used. Mexican-pattern copies and the older Spanish Real Fábrica de Toledo muskets filled out the rest of the small-arms inventory. The result was an infantry army carrying a mix of weapons in varying states of repair, with paper cartridges of inconsistent powder quality and flints that often failed to spark on the second strike. The Mexican soldier on the assault columns at the Alamo loaded and fired a weapon his counterparts at Waterloo would have recognized, and the rate of fire he could maintain — perhaps two rounds a minute under the best conditions, less in the smoke and confusion of the night assault — was the constant tactical limit on what his army could do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis King \u0026amp; Country figure captures a Mexican line infantryman in the chaos of close combat — bayonet fixed and the musket level for a shot taken on the move, the body bent forward into the firing stance, the shako already shot from his head and rolling on the ground at his feet. The bare-headed figure with the heavy beard is the diagnostic story element: K\u0026amp;C has captured the moment of disorder that the wall assault actually was, the soldier still in the fight despite the literal removal of his regulation headgear by a passing rebel ball. He wears the standard Mexican infantry order — dark blue coatee with red facings, white cross-belts, white trousers, and the huarache sandals that marked the line regular's actual march footwear. He stands in the column behind the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/saa-soldier-running-forward\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Running Forward\u003c\/a\u003e at the bayonet charge and the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e carrying their scaling ladders, under the command of \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e directing the assault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: RTA142 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49082740539620,"sku":"RTA142","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA142_1.jpg?v=1780608435"},{"product_id":"mexican-army-flagbearer","title":"Mexican Army Flagbearer","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFlags were the loud language of the nineteenth-century battlefield, and the Mexican Army carried two kinds at the Alamo. The first was the national tricolor — green, white, and red, the eagle and serpent of the old Aztec emblem at the center — carried by each battalion's color party as the regimental standard, the rallying point in formation and the point of regimental honor in combat. The second was the deguello, the bloodred no-quarter flag that Santa Anna ordered hoisted from the church tower of San Fernando in San Antonio on the morning of February 23, 1836 — the visible warning to the defenders inside the Alamo that the assault, when it came, would offer no surrender and no prisoners. The same word in Spanish for \"throat-cutting\" and for the bugle call that announced it, the deguello was the deliberate cruelty Santa Anna intended as the war's settling lesson to anyone considering rebellion against the Mexican Republic. Two flags above the same army — the national colors that gave the soldiers a cause to fight for, and the deguello that told the enemy what was coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis King \u0026amp; Country figure shows a junior Mexican officer carrying the national colors forward into the assault — the green-white-red tricolor with the eagle-and-serpent emblem on the white center panel, mounted on a pike-staff topped with the gilt finial of Mexican federal service. He wears the officer's regulation order: dark blue coatee with red collar and cuffs heavily laced in gold, gold epaulettes at each shoulder marking commissioned rank, crimson silk sash at the waist, white trousers, and a sword at the left hip. The straw hat with the tricolor cockade — in place of the regulation shako — is a field-service indulgence common among Mexican officers in the Texas campaign, the heavier dress hat reserved for parade. Color-bearers were the most visible targets on any battlefield, and the Alamo defenders included the Tennessee long-rifle marksmen of \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-davey-crockett-set\"\u003eDavy Crockett's company\u003c\/a\u003e who could pick out an officer at two hundred yards. The flagbearer carries the colors at the head of the column with \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e bringing the scaling ladders up behind him, under the overall command of \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e directing the attack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: RTA138 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49082749354212,"sku":"RTA138","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA138_1.jpg?v=1780609297"},{"product_id":"s-a-a-soldier-reaching-for-his-shako","title":"S.A.A. Soldier Reaching For His Shako","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe shako was the soldier's identity. Adopted across most European armies in the years after Waterloo from the original Hungarian hussar pattern, the tall black cylindrical cap with brass front plate, cords, and regimental pompom had spread to the Mexican Army by the late 1820s as the standard infantry headgear. The Mexican shako carried the brass eagle of the Republic and the green-white-red cockade of the national colors; cords in regimental shades and a tall pompom rose above the crown. Functionally it gave the soldier an extra few inches of apparent height to intimidate an enemy at distance, served as identification at battlefield range, and provided some marginal protection against a saber blow. Symbolically it was simply what made the man a soldier — bare-headed in uniform, he was an embarrassed civilian; with the shako on, he was the army. The Mexican soldado who lost his shako in close action would risk his life to pick it up, both because regulations demanded it and because no man wanted to stand on a parade ground later trying to explain to his sergeant why he had come back from the assault hatless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis King \u0026amp; Country figure shows a Mexican line infantryman in the act of retrieving his shako from the ground — body bent low, weight on the left leg, the right hand reaching down to pick up the black cylinder with its brass eagle, yellow band, and tri-color pompom lying at his feet where it had been knocked or shot from his head. The musket is gripped in the left hand at the trail; the eyes stay forward on the enemy line even as he stoops. He wears the standard Mexican infantry order — dark blue coatee with red collar and cuffs, white cross-belts supporting cartridge box and bayonet scabbard, white trousers patched at the knee from the long march from San Luis Potosí, huarache sandals, and the yellow canvas haversack at the hip. He is the direct companion piece to the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/saa-soldier-advancing-firing\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Advancing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e figure whose shako has also been shot off — same moment of the assault, different beat in the chaos of the wall fight — running with the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/saa-soldier-running-forward\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Running Forward\u003c\/a\u003e of his column under the command of \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e directing the attack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: RTA132 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49088085950692,"sku":"RTA132","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA132_1.jpg?v=1780677837"},{"product_id":"s-a-a-soldier-charging-forward","title":"S.A.A. Soldier Charging Forward","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Mexican Army that climbed the walls of the Alamo in 1836 was a Spanish colonial army that had become Mexican through fifteen years of independence — its organization, its drill, its uniform style, and its officer corps all inherited from the Royal Spanish forces that had garrisoned New Spain for three centuries. Senior commanders like Santa Anna himself had served in the Spanish royalist army before turning against the Crown in 1821; junior officers were trained at the Colegio Militar in Mexico City on a curriculum still shaped by French Napoleonic models, the manual of arms still using the same drill positions — \"shoulder arms,\" \"high port,\" \"charge bayonets\" — that French infantry had carried across Europe under Bonaparte. The Mexican line battalion of 1836 was structured almost identically to a French regiment of 1812: eight battalion companies, one grenadier company, one cazador (light) company, the same column-and-line tactical doctrine, the same emphasis on close-order discipline and the bayonet attack. What the Mexican Army had, it had borrowed from a European military tradition older than the republic that fielded it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis King \u0026amp; Country figure shows a Mexican line infantryman at the high port — musket held diagonally across the body at chest level with the bayonet pointing up and forward, the standard infantry position for moving over uneven ground or pressing against an obstacle while keeping the bayonet ready to swing down to the charge. The pose is one of the manual of arms positions drilled into every Mexican recruit at the Colegio Militar's training depots and the regimental ranks at San Luis Potosí before the army marched north. He wears the standard infantry order — tall black shako with brass eagle, yellow band, and tri-color pompom; dark blue coatee with red collar and cuffs; white cross-belts; white trousers visibly worn through and patched at the knees from the long march from central Mexico; huarache sandals. He runs in the same column as the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/saa-soldier-running-forward\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Running Forward\u003c\/a\u003e at the bayonet charge ahead and the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/saa-soldier-advancing-firing\"\u003eS.A.A. Soldier Advancing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e putting a snap shot through the smoke beside him, behind the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/mexican-army-flagbearer\"\u003eMexican Army Flagbearer\u003c\/a\u003e carrying the colors to the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: RTA133 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49088145785060,"sku":"RTA133","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA133_1.jpg?v=1780678662"},{"product_id":"a-pair-of-santa-annas-assault-pioneers","title":"A Pair of Santa Anna's Assault Pioneers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the columns reached the Alamo, the walls were only part of the problem — the compound was pierced by a wooden main gate, barricaded doorways, and the timber palisade, and someone had to get through them. That was the assault pioneers' work. Marching at the head of the column with axes rather than muskets in their hands, the sappers hacked at the gates and doors embedded in the rough adobe-and-stone walls, chopping openings for the infantry crowding behind them. It was brutal, exposed labour done under point-blank fire in the dark of 6 March 1836. Where the laddermen struggled against the high faces of the walls, the pioneers went at the weak seams — the places a fortress is actually broken open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's two-figure set gives a matched pair of these axemen — both bearded, in tall shakos and dark blue coatees with red facings and the crossed-axe badge, heavy buff aprons over white trousers, short sapper's swords at their hips and muskets slung on their backs. One strides in with his axe held low; the other rears back to swing a heavy felling axe two-handed. Set them hacking at the gate of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-alamo-facade-1\"\u003eThe New Alamo Facade\u003c\/a\u003e while \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e go up the wall beside them, for the breaching moment of an assault diorama — or pair them with W. Britain's single \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/mexican-infantry-pioneer-1838\"\u003eMexican Infantry Pioneer\u003c\/a\u003e to field a full sapper section.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA146 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49497496977636,"sku":"RTA146","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/21720_m.jpg?v=1784914809"},{"product_id":"backwoods-rifleman","title":"Backwoods Rifleman","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe long rifle was the frontiersman's own weapon, and it was a different tool from the army musket. Where the smoothbore Brown Bess was fast to load and fired a loose ball good for maybe eighty yards, the Tennessee and Kentucky rifles carried a tight-patched ball down a grooved barrel that spun it true — deadly accurate at two hundred yards and more, though slow to reload and carrying no bayonet. In a stand-up firefight that was a weakness; from behind a wall it was murder. Through the thirteen-day siege the Alamo's riflemen made the open ground around the mission dangerous, picking at gun crews and sentries and keeping the Mexican lines honest until the night the columns finally came.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure is one of those riflemen, drawn from the Tennessee men among the garrison — bearded, in a fringed ochre buckskin hunting frock and a dark fur cap, with beaded leggings and moccasins that show the frontier habit of borrowing Native American gear. He is shouldering his long rifle and taking careful aim, a powder horn and hunting bag at his side. Set him on the wall alongside \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/david-crockett-at-the-alamo\"\u003eDavid Crockett\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/fighting-backwoodsman\"\u003eFighting Backwoodsman\u003c\/a\u003e, behind \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-alamo-facade-1\"\u003eThe New Alamo Facade\u003c\/a\u003e, to build a backwoods rifle line for an Alamo diorama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA152 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49497524863204,"sku":"RTA152","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/21721_m.jpg?v=1784915318"},{"product_id":"the-shouting-sentry","title":"The Shouting Sentry","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Alamo very nearly slept through the start of its own last battle. Santa Anna had timed the assault for the small hours precisely to catch the garrison in their blankets, and the three Texian pickets posted out in the dark were killed or overrun before they could fire a warning. What bought the defenders their few seconds was the noise of the attackers themselves — as the columns closed, Mexican soldiers broke into cheers of \"¡Viva Santa Anna!\", and a sentry on the wall caught the sound. The cry went up inside the mission — \"The Mexicans are coming!\" — and men rolled out of sleep and ran for the walls in the last moments before the columns reached them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure is that sentry — a Tennessean of Crockett's company down on one knee, his long rifle grounded upright in one hand while the other cups his mouth to shout the warning. He wears a pale fringed buckskin hunting frock and a dark fur cap, with beaded leggings and moccasins in the frontier style. He makes a natural pair with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-shouting-soldier\"\u003eSanta Anna's Shouting Soldier\u003c\/a\u003e — the very cheers he has just heard coming out of the dark — and belongs alongside \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/david-crockett-at-the-alamo\"\u003eDavid Crockett\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/backwoods-rifleman\"\u003eBackwoods Rifleman\u003c\/a\u003e in a diorama of the garrison waking to the assault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA153 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49497551208676,"sku":"RTA153","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/21722_m.jpg?v=1784915746"},{"product_id":"fighting-backwoodsman","title":"Fighting Backwoodsman","description":"\u003cp\u003eA long rifle was slow to reload and carried no bayonet, which was fine at a distance and fatal up close. Once the Mexican columns were over the walls, there was no time to measure powder and seat a ball — the fight collapsed into hand-to-hand across the plaza and through the barrack rooms, fought with knives, tomahawks, clubbed muskets, and bayonets. A backwoodsman who had fired his last shot simply reversed the rifle and swung the heavy stock like a club. The whole assault, from the first men at the walls to the last defender down, took under an hour on the morning of 6 March 1836, and its final minutes were the closest and cruelest of the battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure is that moment — a buckskin-clad defender who has fired his last shot and gripped his long rifle by the barrel to swing the stock two-handed at a soldier coming over the wall. He wears a fringed buckskin hunting frock with a beaded chest band, a dark fur cap, green cloth leggings and beaded moccasins, a tomahawk and knife still at his belt. He is the Backwoods Rifleman's next instant: pair him with the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/backwoods-rifleman\"\u003eBackwoods Rifleman\u003c\/a\u003e to show one man before and during the breach, set \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e coming over the wall he is defending, and place the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-davey-crockett-set\"\u003eDavey Crockett Set\u003c\/a\u003e nearby for a hand-to-hand Alamo diorama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA161 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49497583452388,"sku":"RTA161","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/21747_m.jpg?v=1784916151"},{"product_id":"general-santa-anna-1","title":"General Santa Anna (Standing)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early dark of 6 March 1836 Santa Anna watched his own assault go in. He had placed himself and his reserve behind the columns, and when the first rush faltered at the walls he fed the fresh troops — the grenadier and rifle companies and the sappers — into the attack to carry it. From that vantage he saw the Alamo fall in under an hour. It was the high-water mark of a career that never stopped rising and collapsing: victor here, a prisoner six weeks later at San Jacinto, president of Mexico again and again across three decades, exiled and recalled and exiled once more. Few figures in nineteenth-century Mexican history are argued over as fiercely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's figure has Santa Anna dismounted and at ease in full dress, a straight sword grounded point-down at his side as he watches the storm go in. He wears the plumed bicorne with its green-white-red feathers, a dark blue coatee with a gold-laced scarlet plastron and heavy gold epaulettes, a pale-blue general's sash with hanging tassels, white breeches, and tall black boots. Stand him on a rise above \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marching-to-battle-set-a\"\u003eMarching to Battle (Set A)\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/santa-annas-laddermen\"\u003eSanta Anna's Laddermen\u003c\/a\u003e as the commander watching his columns hit the walls — the observer's vantage in an Alamo assault diorama — or set him beside the mounted \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-santa-anna\"\u003eGeneral Santa Anna\u003c\/a\u003e as the same commander on horseback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: RTA151 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49621102461156,"sku":"RTA151","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/RTA151_1.jpg?v=1786380913"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/collections\/IMG_0468.jpg?v=1750541387","url":"https:\/\/breagans.com\/en-ca\/collections\/the-alamo.oembed?page=3","provider":"Breagans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}