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Text of the "Mayflower Compact" inscribed at the base of the Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown, MA

A monument to the 2 July 1644 Battle of Marston Moor during the English Civil Wars (1642-51). The battle was won decisively by the Parliamentarians.

A monument commemorating the Kentuckians killed in the massacre following the Battle of the River Raisin (23 January 1813) at the battlefield in present-day Monroe, Michigan. Photo by Notorious4life, July 2010.

Choragic Monument of Lysicrates Dedication: 335/334 BCE Location: Athens, Greece

The cuneiform inscriptions on this fragment of a stone monument mention the name of Utu-Hegal, King of Uruk. 2125 BCE, from Ur, Mesopotamia, Iraq. The British Museum, London.

The Fannin Memorial Monument marks the location where the remains of the Texians from the Goliad Massacre on 27 March 1836 were finally buried on 3 June 1836. Photograph by Michaelluckey...

The Rev. James MacGregor Monument, Pictou, Nova Scotia. James MacGregor (1759-1830) was a Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who wrote the first anti-slavery tract in Canada and helped fugitive slaves...

Historical marker of the Goliad Massacre of 27 March 1836 at the Fannin Memorial Monument. Description: Grave of Colonel J. W. Fannin and His Men, Marker Number 2257...

John Paul Jones (1747-1792), a Scottish-born sailor who served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), monument in Washington, D.C.

King Alfred’s Monument at Athelney, Somerset. Built in 1801, it commemorates the time Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) spent in exile in the Somerset marshes during the early months of 878, when he built a fortress at...