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What is the meaning of the horse's position in military statues?
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∙ 9y ago
A commonly held misconception is:
If the horse has three legs on the ground, the rider was wounded in battle, if the hourse has two legs on the ground theng the rider died in battle, if the horse is stationary the rider did not die in battle.
However, this has been debunked by snopes and many other sources as the kind of urban legend that many have come to expect, the code appears to have arisen in Gettysburg, as the six statues there all follow this code. However, elsewhere the correspondance of legs to fate is roughly 1 in 3- in line with basic statistics!
So unfortunately there is no significance to the posistion- just what looks good!
Wiki User
∙ 9y ago
Wiki User
∙ 8y agoThere is no specific DoD-formalized meaning to a horse's position on a statue, regardless of how many legs a horse may have on the ground or not.
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