Monument Gordon
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The Gordon Monument is a neoclassical monument to a slain warrior on the battlefield of Waterloo. The person commemorated is Lt Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon (1786–1815).
It was erected in 1817 by the siblings of the deceased who included a future Prime Minister, Lord Aberdeen.
The monument takes the form of a severed column, or colonne brisée to use the French term, reached by a flight of steps.
It was designed by the British architect John Buonarotti Papworth, and executed in a type of limestone known as Belgian blue stone (French: pierre bleue).
The pedestal features inscriptions and reliefs, including the badge of the Scots Guards, the regiment in which Gordon served, with its motto Nemo me impune lacessit
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