Grant’s Last Battle
The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Emerging Civil War Series
By Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White
SB –
Savas Beatie
California
(2015)
ISBN-13:
978-1-61121-160-3
Library of Congress Control
Number: 2015943486
Guinea-Bissau, Africa (circa 1956)
This standing
sculpture of Grant as
presidente was commissioned in recognition of Grant’s 1870 arbitration of a dispute between Portugal and Great Britain over
the former colony.
The Portuguese
government commissioned sculptor Manuel Pereira da Silva to create
the monument,
which was erected in the main
square of
Guinea-Bissau’s capital city, Bissau. It later survived the
wave of
destruction that destroyed many of the other monuments
representing the nation’s
colonial past. In August 2007, however, the Grant sculpture
disappeared and was discovered in pieces, probably for use as scrap metal. Police
were able to recover all of the pieces except
Grant’s head, but they still hope to recover that
piece and reassemble the statue.
