17513a-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale set we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in very good condition.
Just the Diorama pieces, no figures or cannon included in this set.
W. Britain, Matte Finish #17513 Alamo Northwest Corner Wall
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.
The Alamo’s defenders positioned most of their artillery on ramped
earthen mounds or wooden platforms that allowed the ordnance to point their
muzzles over the post’s adobe walls. The Texians’ deadliest battery turned out
to be the three 8-pounders assigned to the Fortin de Teran on the north wall,
which operated under the direct supervision of the Alamo’s commandant,
Lieutenant Colonel William Barrett Travis. The last Texian artillery position
to fall to the Mexicans was the high three-gun battery at the back of the Alamo
chapel commanded by Captain Almeron Dickenson.