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Does your city have a statue of a guy on a horse? All good cities have statues of guys on horses.
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this thread's long overdue. bonus points if you can name the guy on the horse and why he got not just a statue, but a statue of him on a horse. pics by me:
Baltimore - there's two that i saw
Charlottesville, VA
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson; mortally wounded about an hour away during his brilliant victory at Chancellorsville
Richmond, VA
i know of 4, although only 2 are pictured (the others are Generals Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart)
George Washington
General Robert E. Lee
New Orleans
General (and later President) Andrew Jackson - he kicked the British army's ass here...two weeks after they'd already lost. so badass that a song was also made about it
Columbia, SC
General and Governor Wade Hampton - first post-reconstruction governor and noted for his chivalry; he captured a Union soldier who was bathing in a river, but he let him go, keeping only his uniform. the soldier promised to name his son after Hampton. Hampton met the boy named after him years later in D.C.
there's also these guys on the other side of the river in West Columbia
Washington, D.C.
there's others, but the only one i have a photo of is General Sherman; not as chivalrous as Hampton as shown by his infamous "march to the sea," where he had his troops destroy everything in their path, including the cities of Columbia and Atlanta
Glasgow, Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland
Austin, Texas
Oklahoma City
Leeds, England
Knoxville, Tennessee
London, England
a horseguy (centaur)
Queen Boudica - led a revolt against the Romans
Durham, England
Paris
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