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In May 1822 he paid a visit to Naples, to superintend the construction of wax moulds for an equestrian statue of the perjured Bourbon king Ferdinand VII.
An equestrian statue was erected to his memory on the Heldenplatz in Vienna in 1860.
Francesco's successor Ludovico Sforza, commissioned Leonardo Da Vinci to design an equestrian statue as part of a monument to Francesco I Sforza.
According to Cassius Dio a gigantic equestrian statue was erected to Hadrian after his death.
In the centre of the High Street is the Scots baronial style Town Hall, built in 1886, and the east end has an equestrian statue, known as " the Horse ", erected in 1914.
The Apotheosis of St. Louis is an equestrian statue of the saint, by Charles Henry Niehaus, that stands in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park.
Magdeburger Reiter, 1240, the first equestrian statue north of the Alps
An equestrian statue of Saint Wenceslaus and other patrons of Bohemia ( St. Adalbert, St. Ludmila, St. Prokop and St. Agnes of Bohemia ) is located on Wenceslaus Square in Prague.
There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.
Presidential Palace, Warsaw | Presidential Palace on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, with equestrian statue of Prince Józef Poniatowski by Bertel Thorvaldsen.
Major memorials to Sherman include the gilded bronze equestrian statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the main entrance to Central Park in New York City and the major monument by Carl Rohl-Smith near President's Park in Washington, D. C. Other posthumous tributes include the naming of the World War II M4 Sherman tank and the " General Sherman " Giant Sequoia tree, the most massive documented single-trunk tree in the world.
The principal squares of Reims include the Place Royale, with a statue of Louis XV, and the Place Cardinal-Luçon, with an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc.
The city hall ( hôtel de ville ), erected in the 17th century and enlarged in the 19th, features a pediment with an equestrian statue of Louis XIII ( reigned 1610 to 1643 ).
In 1998, one of the last monuments erected at Gettysburg National Military Park was dedicated as a belated tribute to Longstreet, an equestrian statue by sculptor Gary Casteel.
* Donatello's magnificent equestrian statue of the Venetian general Gattamelata ( Erasmo da Narni ) can be found on the piazza in front of the Basilica di Sant ' Antonio da Padova.
* In 1904, the city commissioned an equestrian statue of Howard by the eminent French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet and installed it at Washington Square, Baltimore.
His plans reflected the nationalistic spirit of the time, and called for a structure adorned with six equestrian and 31 pedestrian statues of colossal proportions, crowned by a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
The site of the cross is now occupied by an equestrian statue of King Charles I.
The month before, the bronze equestrian statue of Charles, on a pedestal of carved Portland stone was given Grade I listed protection.
Edme Bouchardon's equestrian statue of Louis XV was originally conceived to commemorate the monarch's victorious role in the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 48 ) and artistically executed to display a benign representation of the king as peacemaker.
To the west, the completion of the Arc de Triomphe in 1836 on the Place de l ' Étoile at the western end of the Champs Élysées formed the far point of this line of perspective, which now starts at the equestrian statue of Louis XIV placed by I. M.
* A bronze equestrian sculpture of Houston is located in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas This statue depicts Houston atop his horse with a single hand out stretched pointing directly towards San Jacinto.
Thorvaldsen produced some striking and affecting statues of historic figures, including two in Warsaw, Poland: an equestrian statue of Prince Józef Poniatowski that now stands before the Presidential Palace ; and the seated Nicolaus Copernicus, before the Polish Academy of Sciences building — both located on Warsaw's Krakowskie Przedmieście.

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* The Wayne County Building in Detroit, Michigan, features a pediment by Edward Wagner that depicts an equestrian Wayne, c. 1900
* An equestrian statue of Custer by Edward Clark Potter was erected in Monroe, Michigan, his boyhood home, in 1910.
Footpaths radiate outwards from an equestrian statue of Edward VII, which stands on a large mound at the centre of the northern section.
Edward Clark Potter ( November 26, 1857-June 21, 1923 ) was an American sculptor best known for his equestrian and animal statues.
In the centre of the space is an equestrian statue of Edward VII, dating from 1921.
Among these works were equestrian portraits of Queen Victoria and the prince consort, painted for Christ's Hospital ; the Prince of Wales ; an equestrian group of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort ; Sidney Herbert, afterwards Lord Herbert of Lea ; Lord John Russell, afterwards Earl Russell ; Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Earl of Beaconsfield ; General Sir James Hope Grant ; Sir George Grey ; Edward, earl of Derby, first lord of the treasury ; Lord Clyde ; Viscount Palmerston, painted for Harrow School ; Viscount Gough ; Lord Truro, lord high chancellor ; Sir Frederick Pollock, lord chief baron ; Sir William Erle, lord chief justice of the common pleas ; John Sumner, archbishop of Canterbury ; George Moberly, bishop of Salisbury ; and John Gibson Lockhart.
Behind the clock stands a bronze equestrian statue, a memorial to Queen Victoria's successor, King Edward VII.
The first generation of American animaliers included, Edward Kemeys, Edward Potter ( who occasionally worked with Daniel Chester French, producing horses for his equestrian statues ), Alexander Phimister Proctor ( who executed mounts for Augustus Saint-Gaudens ' riders ), Charles Russell, Herbert Haseltine, Albert Laessle and Anna Hyatt Huntington.
In 1901 Brock was awarded the colossal equestrian statue of Edward the Black Prince, set up in Leeds City Square, and was also given perhaps his most significant commission, the vast multi-figure Imperial Memorial to Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace.
He also cast the bronze equestrian statue of William III in Queen Square, Bristol in 1733, and a later monument to Edward Colston in All Saints, Bristol.

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The grounds behind the Queen's House will be used to house a stadium for the equestrian events of the Olympic Games to be held in London in 2012.

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The Kentucky Horse Park in Northern Fayette County hosts the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event, one of the top 3 annual equestrian eventing competitions in the world.
Culpeper County is home to Commonwealth Park, site for many world-class equestrian events.
Greenwich Park will host equestrian events and modern pentathlon, the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich will host shooting events, and The O2 arena will host gymnastics and basketball finals.
An equestrian monument by Alexander Doyle depicts Beauregard at Beauregard Circle, the intersection where Esplanade Avenue enters City Park in New Orleans.
* Horseshoe Park & Equestrian Centre-a large, publicly owned and operated equestrian facility that hosts regional events ( http :// www. queencreek. org / hpec ).
The now-abandoned rail line serves as the popular Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad Trail State Park -- a paved 16 +- mile bicycle and equestrian trail terminating at the St. Marks waterfront.
The Horse Park of New Jersey is a park located in the borough that holds equestrian events.
Pioneer Park covers and has equestrian, bicycle, and hiking trails.
An equestrian statue in his honor was erected in the late 19th century in Burnside Park in Providence.
The State of Illinois commissioned an equestrian statue of the general that now stands in Chicago's Grant Park.
The most famous and controversial of these, is the equestrian statue of Morazán located in Tegucigalpa's Central Park.
His statue, with that of Roger Williams, represents the state of Rhode Island in the National Hall of Statuary in the Capitol at Washington ; in the same city there is a bronze equestrian statue of him by Henry Kirke Brown at the center of Stanton Park.
Some folk figures are based on semi or actual historical people whose story has been passed down centuries ; Lady Godiva for instance was said to have ridden naked on horseback through Coventry, the heroic English figure Hereward the Wake resisted the Norman invasion, Herne the Hunter is an equestrian ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park, and Mother Shipton is the archetypal witch.
When London hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics, Greenwich Park was the venue for the equestrian events and for the riding and running parts of the modern pentathlon events.
For the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Greenwich Park was the venue for the equestrian events.
The use of Greenwich Park for Olympic equestrian events caused some tension between the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 ( LOCOG ) and some local area residents.
A community action group, NOGOE ( No to Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events ), believed Greenwich Park was not a suitable venue for the events and started an ( ultimately unsuccessful ) petition to get the equestrian events relocated ; by February 2009 this had gathered over 12, 000 signatures.
Befitting his importance to the Union and his native state, he is memorialized by three statues in Gettysburg National Military Park ( an equestrian statue on McPherson Ridge, one by John Quincy Adams Ward in the National Cemetery, and one on the Pennsylvania Memorial ), as well as one in front of the Philadelphia City Hall.

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