In 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.

King & 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 Marching to Battle (Set A) and Santa Anna's Laddermen as the commander watching his columns hit the walls — the observer's vantage in an Alamo assault diorama — or set him beside the mounted General Santa Anna as the same commander on horseback.

Model: RTA151 / King & Country / 1/30 (60mm) scale / matte finish / 1 piece set