In 1883, Napier was promoted to Field Marshal. Also served in China and Abyssinia. Bristol: Wills Memorial Building. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services.MORE than 100 statues and street names across the UK have been listed on a website titled Topple the Racists, which aims to highlight Britain's colonial past.Protesters want them taken down because of their racist associations, and a map showing all of the "racist" statues in Britain online include memorials of Captain Cook and Wetherspoons pubs named after slave owners.The tearing down of Edward Colston's statue in Bristol sparked a furious debate over which people get honoured with memorials in Britain.And a statue in London of 18th century slave trader Robert Milligan was taken down on Tuesday, June 9.The website was published by the Stop Trump coalition in support of the Black Lives Matter protests and maps out more than 100 statues across Britain which pay tribute to slave traders and "racists".The group said: "We believe these statues and other memorials to slave-owners and colonialists need to be removed so that Britain can finally face the truth about its past – and how it shapes our present. "The statue commemorating the wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill was vandalised by Black Lives Matter protesters on D-Day this year.The statue in Parliament Square, central London was targeted and smeared with graffiti claiming he "was a racist".Just a few days later another Churchill statue, in Woodford Green in northeast London, was vandalised.The commemorative statue was erected in 1959 after Churchill served as MP for the area from 1924 to 1964One of the statues they want taken down is famed explorer Christopher Columbus, which sits in Belgrave Square in London..The explorer was called the founder of the "New World" but protesters want his statue torn down for his exploitation and colonisation of  the Americas.An older understanding of the "discovery" of the Americas praised Columbus' expedition as a great triumph and bringing huge wealth to Spain and other European countries through pillaging the land.But more recent histories of the adventurer have focused on the slave trade in the Americas and the imported European diseases which wiped out indigenous peoples of the Caribbean region and American continents.Historians have credited Columbus' "discovery" of the Americas as the beginning of the slaughter of 3 million people - and his statue in North End Park in Boston, US, was decapitated on June 10.A young priest who transcribed Columbus journals' wrote: "There were 60,000 people living on this island, including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over 3,000,000 people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines.
Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square - Nelson was widely revered for his naval victories for Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, he was also an ardent proponent of the slave trade. "Meanwhile, it has been announced 130 Labour councils across England and Wales will begin reviewing monuments and statues in their towns and cities.A statement posted on Twitter said: "LGA Labour have consulted with all Labour council leaders, and there is overwhelming agreement from all Labour councils that they will listen to and work with their local communities to review the appropriateness of local monuments and statues on public land and council property. Charles James Napier statue in Trafalgar Square - Napier was a general who led the military conquest of Sindh (now in Pakistan). Indian army officer. The website was published by the Stop Trump coalition in support of the Black Lives Matter protests and maps out more than 100 statues across Britain which pay tribute to slave traders and "racists". Served in ...French resistance fighters in WW2.

His eldest son, Robert William Napier (born 1845) succeeded to his barony. Born Henry William Mallin in Hackney. "After a petition in 2017 the pub sign was removed, which showed Yale alongside a slave in chains.But the protesters want the pub to change the name entirely.The management is saying that they are now "considering a name change".A statue of explorer James Cook sits in Great Ayton.Captain Cook was famous for discovering and colonising Australia and New Zealand.Captain Cook's "discovery" led to the deaths of Maori people in New Zealand and indigenous Australians.The monument to the former Scottish king was vandalised on June 12, this year at Bannockburn.Both the statue and the visitor centre were daubed with graffiti.There is no known racist history associated with Robert the Bruce.Some suggestions were made online that historical tensions between Scotland and England led to the racism accusations in the graffiti.The Bodmin Beacon memorial, erected in 1856, commemorates the service of Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert in India.Sir Walter was an army in the British East India Company.Protesters said: "In 1849 he lead a division of East India Company soldiers responsible for killing 6000 Sikhs during the Second Anglo-Sikh War.


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