DSC 1274a Monument to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

The Wellington Statue Aldershot, Hampshire, UK
A monument to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington victor at
the Battle of Waterloo and later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The statue is of colossal size. It is nearly 30 feet high, 26 feet from
nose to tail, over 22 feet in girth and weighs 40 tons.
Sculptor Matthew Wyatt was commissioned to execute the statue
and work was executed entirely in his workshops in the Harrow
Road where he built two great furnaces one capable of melting
12 tons and the other 20 tons of metal, chiefly bronze from cannon
captured by the British at the Battle of Waterloo.