Examples of Failed Rebellions Given Official Public Support/Recognition

There are several in Kansas.

Simon de Montford (who lead a very successful rebellion in the 13th century, and introduced some remarkably modern looking representative government, until his defeat at the Battle of Evesham) has a memorial:

Just a few.

You’ve probably mixed this statue up with bare naked Louis, which stood on the grounds of the Saskatchewan Legislature in Regina for decades.

A statue of Louis Real was commission by the Saskatchewan government in 1967 to commemorate Canada’s centennial. Sculptor John Nugent proposed an abstract design that Premier Ross Thatcher disapproved of.

Nugent was told to make something more realistic and he did.

There was, however, nothing worn under the kilt.

Everthing was in perfect working order and visible to “giggling schoolkids” like myself.

The monument at Glenfinnan is understandable. The statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie at Derby is more unexpected.

Although they were hardly failures, there are two statues of Gandhi and one of George Washington in London.

Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament Square - Wikipedia

Gandhi statue - Bloomsbury : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London

George Washington : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London

Not necessarily to Charles Edward Stuart, but there’s a large memorial, and separate grave markers, for the Highland clans that died at the Culloden battlefield.

The U.S. had a tank named after Robert E. Lee in WWII. The British had a tank named after Oliver Cromwell.

Tecumseh, to name a particular figure who had somewhat significant impact on US cultural history.

But, otherwise, I suspect that there are a variety of museums and such dedicated to Native American uprisings and to slave uprisings by African Americans.

I’d note that Russia seems to have a similar set of museums dedicated to the acts of Imperial Russia towards the native peoples of Siberia and other conquered territories. I would assume that there’s some mention of various uprisings, but I couldn’t say for sure.

In Germany the revolution of 1848 (successful at first in the spring of 1848 with a triumph for democracy; crushed in 1849 after the revolutionaries concentrated on the details of the new national constitution while the reactionaries regrouped) is widely considered an admirable predecessor of today’s democracy.

Did John Brown lose, though?

Hmmm… Crazy Horse has a mountain of a statue under construction today (for the last many decades) in South Dakota. He was part of the force that wiped out Custer’s force. In cubic meters, that probably dwarfs the total statues of any others mentioned here.

There is the carving on the side of Stone Mountain Georgia. It’s completed and has a laser light show. Take that Crazy Horse!

90 feet by 190 feet? Malarkey! Crazy Horse got ya beat…

The sculpture’s final dimensions are planned to be 641 feet (195 m) long and 563 feet (172 m) high.

And full 3D, not some wimpy bas-relief.

Joseph Marceau (the only French-Canadian who didn’t return from his Australian exile, after the failed 1837-38 Rebellion) had fallen in love and got married, although he still had a wife living in Quebec (a good reason not to return). Their 11 children produced lots of descendants, and the Australian Marceaus have regular reunions. Joseph Marceau » Migration Heritage Project (mhpillawarra.com.au)

But no lasers.

But… it’s not finished yet. What are the odds a tourist trap attraction near Mount Rushmore will ecape the temptation of crazy light shows, considering even the Sphinx and the Pyramids have that?

I’ve been to nightly shows in Hong Kong and Shanghai too, and concluded that some people should never have been exposed to lasers and LED’s.

♪ The future’s so bright
I gotta wear shades…
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