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Monument to Lieutenant General Sir John Moore

Bacon, John, the Younger (Sculptor)

Monument to Lieutenant General Sir John Moore (1761-1809), marble, John Bacon the Younger, 1815.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR JOHN MOORE, K.B./ WHO WAS BORN AT GLASGOW IN THE YEAR 1761. / HE FOUGHT FOR HIS COUNTRY / IN AMERICA, IN CORSICA, IN THE WEST-INDIES, / IN HOLLAND, EGYPT, AND SPAIN: / AND ON THE 16TH.OF JANUARY, 1809, / WAS SLAIN BY A CANNON-BALL, / AT CORUNNA.J.BACON, JUNR. / SCULPTOR.1815.

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