I was idly looking at a statue of a general on horseback today.( the general, not me )
The horse had one leg raised and the general was brandishing
a sabre.
A fellow onlooker then informede me thus:
One leg raised- person was wounded in battle
Two legs raised- person killed in battle
No legs raised- person died a natural death ( and, presumably,
the horse.)
Have I been pranked, or is this for real?
Take a look here: http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm
Seems I’d read about this at snopes…
…and I had (it’s not true)
silly me.
forgot all about snopes.
thank you
The thing that has always bothered me about this factoid - even before I discovered it was blatantly false - was the contradiction here:
One leg raised- person was wounded in battle
and
No legs raised- person died a natural death
Surely, if they were only wounded in a battle, they then went home and died a natural death?
Presumably if you were a very unlucky General, and were wounded in 4 or more battles, no-one would want to raise a stuatue anyway.
Russell
[Speling chek] statue [/Speling chek]
Cecil has covered it too:
In statues, does the number of feet the horse has off the ground indicate the fate of the rider?