Trafalgar Square
entrance portico and George Washington to the east. The latter statue, a gift from the state of
Virginia, stands on soil imported from the United States. This was done in order to honour
Washington's declaration he would never again set foot on British soil.[4]
In 1888 the statue of General Charles George Gordon was erected. In 1943 the statue was
removed and, in 1953, re-sited on the Victoria Embankment. A bust of the Second World War
First Sea Lord Admiral Cunningham by Franta Belsky was unveiled in Trafalgar Square on 2
April 1967 by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[5]
The square has become a social and political location for visitors and Londoners alike,
developing over its history from "an esplanade peopled with figures of national heroes, into
the country's foremost place politique", as historian Rodney Mace has written. Its symbolic
importance was demonstrated in 1940 when the Nazi SS developed secret plans to transfer
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