Landowski, Paul – Equestrian statues https://equestrianstatue.org by Kees van Tilburg Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:25:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 Memorial WW I https://equestrianstatue.org/memorial-ww-i/ Wed, 18 May 2016 15:22:39 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/memorial-ww-i/ This monument named the Victory, showing a Moroccan and a French cavalryman shaking hands, thereby representing the French-Moroccan brotherhood, was inaugurated in Casablanca in 1924. When Morocco became independent in 1961, the monument was broken down and was rebuilt in 1965 in Senlis, where the Moroccan Spahi regiment was based during World War I.

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]]> Edward VII https://equestrianstatue.org/edward-vii/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/?p=1292 Edward VII has more equestrian statues outside the UK than within it: two in India and Australia, one in France and one in Canada. 

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]]> Haig, Douglas https://equestrianstatue.org/haig-douglas-3/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/?p=1449 His statue in Montreuil-sur-Mer, the town where he had his General Headquarters during the Great War was melted down by the Germans in 1940. The new statue, cast from the old mould, was erected in 1950.

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