Ponsonby's Column
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Ponsonby's Column, also known as Ponsonby's Cenotaph,[2] was a monumental column in Valletta, Malta. It was built in 1838 as a memorial to Major-General Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, a former Governor of Malta, but it was destroyed by lightning in 1864. Its plinth survived, and is now located near Hastings Gardens.[3]
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