If a statue in the Park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, The person died in battle.
Andy Jackson statue in New Orleans. (Andy died in bed, of old age.):
If a statue in the Park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, The person died in battle.
Andy Jackson statue in New Orleans. (Andy died in bed, of old age.):
“Andy Jackson statue in New Orleans. (Andy died in bed, of old age.)”
Probably because he could still,keep it up?
Shazaaaam!
This myth is only mostly true at the Gettysburg battlefield. Gettysburg has the most monuments and statues, perhaps because it was the most accessible to vets and the general public during the 1890s, and is still the best maintained in it's original state.
(Although, Little Round Top was entirely wooded over, the last time I was there, when in fact it had been lumbered off, in 1863.)
Yep:
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Andy Jackson statue in New Orleans. (Andy died in bed, of old age.):
He was "killed in battle" twenty or thirty times; he just kept coming back to life.
Here’s a true one: There are four of those. The others are in Washington in Lafayette Square, close to the White House, on the Capitol grounds in Nashville, and in Jacksonville Florida. The first three are the originals, cast in the 1800’s, and the one in Florida was cast in 1987.