A voice in the assault
King & Country depicts this Mexican soldier running and shouting to the men around him. His subject is the human communication of an attack, when orders and encouragement had to compete with gunfire and the confusion of movement.
The final attack began before dawn on 6 March 1836, after thirteen days of siege. Darkness and a defended compound made coordination difficult, while the assault depended on men continuing forward. The open mouth supplies a vivid detail of that effort: a voice trying to carry across the noise around it.
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