{{Short description|Sculpture in Hanover, Pennsylvania}} {{Infobox artwork | title = The Picket | image = Sentry 1904 Hanover York County PA.JPG | caption = The sculpture in 2013. | artist = Cyrus Edwin Dallin | year = 1905 | type = Bronze | city = Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States }} '''''The Picket''''' (1905) is an equestrian sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin in Hanover, Pennsylvania. The work is also referred to by the titles '''''Cavalryman''''' and '''''The Sentry'''''. The sculpture is made of cast bronze and sits on a granite pedestal measuring twelve feet by eight feet. The total height of both the sculpture and the pedestal is twenty feet or about six meters.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Quinby|first=Florence Cole|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044108417320|title=The Equestrian Monuments of the World|publisher=|year=1913|location=New York City|pages=20–21|hdl=2027/hvd.32044108417320}}</ref>
The sculpture was erected on September 28, 1905,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Levy|first=Florence Nightingale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJRFAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22cavalryman%22+++cyrus+dallin+++hanover&pg=PA130|title=American Art Annual, Vol. V|publisher=R.R. Bowker|year=1905|location=New York City|pages=130|language=en}}</ref> having been paid for by the state of Pennsylvania. It stood in a roundabout in the middle of Hanover’s Center Square until it was moved in 1968; since then, it has stood north of the square outside 30 Center Square, Hanover.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Battle of Hanover Monument|url=https://stonesentinels.com/less-known/hanover/battle-hanover-monument/|access-date=2021-08-24|website=Stone Sentinels|language=en-US}}</ref>
The sculpture commemorates the Battle of Hanover, which took place on June 30, 1863.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Francis|first=Rell Gardner|title=Cyrus E. Dallin: Let Justice Be Done|publisher=Francis|year=1976|location=Springville, UT|pages=84}}</ref> ''The Picket'' does not represent a particular participant in the Battle of Hanover; instead, it commemorates all of the unnamed cavalrymen whose names have been lost to history.
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