What's the world's most prominent memorial or monument to a lost war? I'd nominate the ironically-named Arc de Triomphe, which was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 after Austerlitz, but only completed in 1836, long after the French had lost the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Vietnam Memorial Wall is probably the most famous American monument of this type. https://twitter.com/CommonSenseMa16/status/1155688270698876928 …
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1812 was a draw, and a long-term strategic win for the US, but I take your point https://twitter.com/FrankFite/status/1155688469089247232 …
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The Germans built a huge monument to Tannenberg, their greatest victory of WWI, in 1924, six years after they lost the war. It was dedicated by Hindenburg, who was buried there, but was destroyed in stages by Germans, Russians & Poles during & after the next war.
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The most distinctive of the Confederate memorials.https://twitter.com/Blooshier/status/1155689326300291072 …
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Another reader nominates the Crazy Horse Monument as a domestic example of a monument to a lost warhttps://www.npr.org/2013/01/01/167988928/the-slow-carving-of-the-crazy-horse-monument …
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The Irish, the Scots & some of the Balkan states have a rich literature of lost wars, but I confess I'm less familiar with their statuary.
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Oh yes. Very good. Although it is more of a site preservation. (The Alamo, by contrast, was a lost battle in a won war.)https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/1155691469157670913 …
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