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Colossal Statue of the Duke of Wellington, 1850. '...colossal statues of the greatest military and naval hero of our age - the Duke of Wellington and Lord Nelson - have been sculptured in stone by Mr, Milligan, of Old Cavendish-street, for Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, and are intended to be placed upon a monument eighteen feet high, to be erected upon Southsea-common, near Portsmouth. The height of each statue is seven feet'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.