When the assault came before dawn on 6 March 1836, William Travis was among the first to die. He had command of the north wall, the longest and weakest stretch of the perimeter, and when the alarm went up he ran to the battery there, calling "Come on, boys, the Mexicans are upon us!" He fired down into the attacking column — by one account with a shotgun — and was almost immediately shot through the head, falling at his post in the opening minutes of the battle. He was twenty-six. The account came from Joe, Travis's enslaved manservant, who survived the fall of the Alamo and described his commander's death to the Texas authorities afterward. King & Country's "Gallant Colonel Travis" is the man at the instant of the alarm — mouth open in a shout, a double-barrelled shotgun thrust up in his right hand and a sabre drawn in his left, a pistol shoved through his belt. He wears a dark blue frontier tailcoat over a pale yellow waistcoat and a black stock, a red sash at the waist, white breeches, and tall black boots — a gentleman's dress worn to a soldier's work. Post him at the north-wall battery with Santa Anna's Laddermen coming over the parapet, alongside the Davey Crockett Set, for the last-stand centre of an Alamo diorama — or pair him with W. Britain's William B. Travis as a second portrait of the same officer. Model: RTA050 / King & Country / 1/30 (60mm) scale / matte finish / 1 piece set
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