If a statue depicting a person on a horse with both front legs in the air, the person died in a battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in a battle.
I have heard that the number of legs a horse has in the air in a statue indicates how the rider died. According to what I have understood: 2 legs in the air: rider died in battle 1 leg in the air:...
A statue of a horse and rider in that attitude is intended to make the rider (usually some General) appear more heroic. In reality, that General was probably well to the rear of all the action in every battle, watching from the top of a hill.
A significant number of horse statues in Washington, D.C. and in London, England, do not follow these alleged protocols regarding leg location on a horse statue. The U.S. and the U.K. are the two countries in which the contentions about horse leg statue positions are most prevalent.
According to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, no such tradition has ever existed. This is not surprising considering that examples of multiple equestrian statues of the same person tend to be inconsistent in terms of the horse’s legs positioning.
On a statue of a horse and rider, the number of legs in the air reveals information about how the rider died: both legs in the air means they died during a battle, one leg in the air means they died later of wounds inflicted during a battle.
An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin "eques", meaning "knight", deriving from "equus", meaning "horse". A statue of a ...
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The horse General Sheridan rides is named Winchester … Winchester’s raised leg symbolizes his rider was wounded in battle (the legs of [General Ulysses S.] Grant’s horse [as seen in another Chicago statue] are on the ground, meaning he was not wounded).”
LT. GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON:(there are two, one is located at Washington Circle, at 23rd and K and Pennsylvania and New Hampshire NW) Here his horse has one hoof raised, but Washington passed from cynache trachealis. Also, his statue at Washington Cathedral depicts the horse with one hoof raised. The horse thing is entirely up to the artist.
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