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The Battle of Liberty Place Monument is a stone obelisk on an inscribed plinth, formerly on display in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, commemorating the "Battle of Liberty Place", an 1874 attempt by Democratic White League paramilitary organizations to take control of the government of Louisiana from its Reconstruction Era Republican leadership after a disputed gubernatorial election.
The monument in its original location on Canal Street, 1906 In 1891, the city erected the Battle of Liberty Place Monument to commemorate and praise the insurrection from the Democratic Party point of view, which at the time was in firm political control of the city and state and was in the process of disenfranchising most blacks.
The monument initially celebrated the Battle of Liberty Place, [11] also known as the Battle of Canal Street, which was a failed coup d'état and riot led by White League paramilitary terrorists in September 1874. In December 2016, the city council voted to remove the monument, and its removal was upheld by a federal appeals court in March 2017 ...
Minute Man National Historical Park commemorates the opening battle in the American Revolutionary War. It also includes the Wayside , home in turn to three noted American authors. The National Historical Park is under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service and protects 970 acres (392.5 ha) in and around the Massachusetts towns of ...
Prior to the erection of the monument, the location was known as Tivoli Circle or Place du Tivoli, the park’s name derives from the legendary beauty of the centuries-old gardens from Tivoli in Lazio, Italy and is usually associated with public garden parks in Europe. Tivoli Circle was an important, central point in the city, as it linked ...
He was joined in this work by two of his sons, who served as his clerks. Dubuclet was reelected both in 1870 and 1874. Dubuclet was the only officeholder allowed to remain in office during the minor coup d'état, known as the Battle of Liberty Place that occurred in September 1874. [5]
A 352-foot (107 m) monument — the world's tallest Doric column — was constructed in Put-in-Bay, Ohio by a multi-state commission from 1912 to 1915 "to inculcate the lessons of international peace by arbitration and disarmament." The memorial was designed after an international competition from which the winning design by Joseph H ...
Liberty Monument (Nicosia), monument to Cyprus independence fighters, erected 1973; Liberty Monument (Seychelles), monument to independence, erected 2014; Liberty Statue (Budapest), erected 1947; Battle of Liberty Place Monument, New Orleans monument to the Battle of Liberty Place, erected 1891 and dismantled 2017