Wellington Monument

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The Wellington Monument is a monument to the first duke of Wellington and in his victories in the Peninsular War and the latter stages of the Napoleonic Wars. It is sited at the south-western end of Park Lane, near Hyde Park Corner in London. It was funded by £10,000 donated by British women and inaugurated on 18 June 1822. Its total height, including the sculpture, the base and the mound on which it stands, is 36 feet.
It is best known for its colossal 18 foot high statue of Achilles by the sculptor Richard Westmacott, produced from melted-down captured enemy cannon. Based on the poses of the Borghese Gladiator and more particularly the Quirinal Horse Tamers, it shows the Greek mythological hero as a muscular nude young man, raising his shield with his left hand and his short sword in his right hand, with his armour standing by his right thigh and his cloak draped over his left shoulder. On being transported to its final site, the entrance gates into Hyde Park proved too low for it and it proved necessary to knock a hole in the adjoining wall. The inscription on the statue’s Dartmoor granite base reads:

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