Nelson's Column - London, UK
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Britain's Admiral Horatio Nelson is honored with a tall column with a statue of his likeness in the center of Trafalgar Square.
Waymark Code: WMEB8G
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/01/2012
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This Memorial is known as Nelson's Column and constructed between 1840 and 1843. Nelson, 1758-1805, had previously lost an arm and the sight in one eye during battles in the Napoleanic Wars. He was shot and killed during the victorious battle at Trafalgar. Read more about him at (
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Wikipedia (
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The pedestal is decorated with four bronze relief panels, each 18 feet square, cast from captured French guns. They depict the Battle of Cape St Vincent, the Battle of the Nile, the Battle of Copenhagen and the Death of Nelson at Trafalgar. The sculptors were Musgrave Watson, William F Woodington, John Ternouth and John Edward Carew respectively.
It was refurbished in 2006 at a cost of £420,000, at which time it was surveyed and found to be 4.4 metres shorter than previously supposed. The whole monument is 169 ft 3ins (51.59 metres) tall from the bottom of the pedestal to the top of Nelson's hat."