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The statue is 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall and depicts a minuteman at the Battle of Concord. It is, perhaps, a portrait of Isaac Davis, [note 4] an officer who died in the battle. [38] The farmer-turned-soldier is shown trading his plow for a musket [note 5] and stepping away from his private life toward the impending battle. [25]
In his 1837 poem, "Concord Hymn", thinker and author Ralph Waldo Emerson immortalized the North Bridge Fight as "the shot heard round the world". At this site also stands Daniel Chester French's well-known The Minute Man statue of 1874. [2] Across the North Bridge, opposite The Minute Man statue is the Obelisk Monument. The Obelisk is believed ...
The statue was the first public work of sculptor Daniel Chester French, best known for his 1920 statue, "Abraham Lincoln", in the Lincoln Memorial. Although commissioned to sculpt a generic provincial soldier, French was inspired by the story of Isaac Davis and modeled the facial features of his statue after photographs of Isaac Davis's ...
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The 20-second video, which Trump indicated was taken Thursday in Long Island, New York, shows a truck emblazoned with "Trump 2024" and a large picture depicting Biden tied up and lying on his side.
A photo showing religious leaders praying over a golden statue of Donald Trump is fake. The original image was altered to insert the statue.
The first stanza of Emerson's Concord Hymn is inscribed at the base. The statue is located in Minute Man National Historical Park. It is commonly called "The Concord Minuteman," Captain John Parker of the Lexington Militia and is often confused with "Captain John Parker of the Lexington Militia" by the English sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson, from ...
President Joe Biden is sworn in during the 2021 Presidential Inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 20, 2021. Donald Trump ...