Captain Amon B. King and his men were captured and then executed by General Jose' Urrea, and they were remembered as brave young men who gave their lives so Texans could be free of the oppression of Santa Anna. A later memorial to them was shaped by the training and style of its sculptor, Raoul Josset, who was born in Tours, France, in December 1899, studied at the Paris School of Fine Arts under Antoine Bourdelle, created more than 15 memorials in France after World War I, won the Rome Prize in 1923 and the Prix Paris in 1924, 1925, and 1926, came to the U.S. in 1933, carved two 45 foot granite Indians for the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge at Vincennes, Indiana, became a U.S. citizen in 1934, and created Spirit of the Centennial at Fair Park in Dallas during the Texas Centennial in 1936. Working at the height of the Art Deco movement, Josset gave the memorial angular muscles, square form, and symbolism from Greek mythology to depict a young man on one knee, weary from battle, struggling with a broken sword, losing his fight but battling to the end, and holding tightly to a laurel leaf as the idea of freedom, presenting not only Captain King but also the group of young men whose sacrifice was linked to the freedom remembered here.