The soldier in the line was the backbone of Santa Anna's army, organized into battalions with names that recur through the whole Texas campaign. The permanent battalions — Matamoros, Jiménez, Aldama — were the regulars; alongside them marched the newer active battalions like Toluca and San Luis Potosí, raised for the war. It was these units, stiffened by the elite grenadier and rifle companies and the Zapadores sappers held in reserve, that Santa Anna threw at the Alamo before dawn on 6 March 1836. 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.

W. 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 Mexican Infantry Drummer and Mexican Infantry Pioneer, under General Santa Anna, to build a Mexican line detachment for an Alamo diorama in matching 60mm.

Model: 10064 / W. Britain / 1/30 (60mm) scale / matte finish / 1 piece set