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| | Statues and Civic Memory by Francis Morrone, City Journal Summer 1999 |
 | | Sometimes it memorializes them grandly, as in Columbus Circle's Maine Monument to the 260 sailors killed when the battleship Maine was sunk in Havana harbor in 1898, launching the Spanish-American War. |
 | | Atop the monument, cast in bronze from guns recovered from the Maine herself, is a female figure, Columbia Triumphant, symbolizing American sea power and embodying in sculpture the thesis of a then much-read book, Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History. |
 | | Coutan described him as "the god of speed, of traffic, and of the transmission of intelligence." To his right is Hercules, symbolizing strength, and to his left is Minerva, goddess of wisdom, guardian of cities. |
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