17516-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale set we are offering. It comes in
bubble wrap and is in like new condition.
W. Britain's #17516 Alamo Texian and New Orleans Grey Wounded Soldiers - 2 Figure Set
The Americana Series
The 13-day siege of the Alamo symbolizes the place where
many men eventually made the ultimate sacrifice against overwhelming
odds and transformed a 100-year-old Franciscan mission into a national
shrine.
On March 5, 1836, Santa Anna announced that he
would storm the Alamo early on the following morning. He also directed
that his troops should put all the defenders of the Texian fortress to
the sword. Santa Anna’s decision dismayed many of his officers. They
knew that the Mexican Army’s heavy siege artillery would arrive within
two or three days. Once the big guns were in place, they could easily
level the crumbling adobe walls of the former mission, which would leave
the garrison with no choice but to capitulate. Santa Anna overruled his
subordinates by insisting, "An assault would infuse our soldiers with
that enthusiasm of the first triumph that would make them superior in
the future to those of the enemy." In reality, a deserter from the Alamo
had informed Santa Anna that the garrison, discouraged by a lack of
reinforcements, was contemplating surrender. The generalissimo wanted to
take the Alamo in a spectacular massacre to terrorize Texas rebels. He
got his wish, but more Mexican blood would flow in the coming battle
than Texian.