Abraham Lincoln - in Manchester, England?

Yes - really impressive statue of the great man. George Grey Barnard's bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln was originally intended to stand outside the Houses of Parliament, a tribute from the USA to Britain to mark the 100 years of unbroken peace that had existed between the two countries since 1814. Barnard’s depiction of Lincoln proved controversial and eventually led to a more statesmanlike image of the president being sent to London at the end of the First World War. Barnard’s Lincoln was without a home. Manchester argued that it was an appropriate city for such a statue because of its connections with Lincoln. This was a reference to the sacrifices that Lancashire cotton operatives had made in support of the Union and the abolition of slavery during the American Civil War, a sacrifice that Lincoln himself acknowledged.