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These horse-riding statues go back to Roman times. Originally this statue stood in India, but in 1969 it was moved to Canada.

He lived from 1757 to 1828. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_August,_Grand_Duke_of_Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

His son William III hated his father so much that the erection of this statue took years and when the statue was finally there, the unveiling took months. William II fought at Waterloo, was blackmailed for homosexual encounters, agreed to a liberal constitution in 1848 depriving him of power and leaving all the problems to the politicians.