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pire were to march four abreast past the cenotaph, the sad parade would last for seven
days.
Eternally pondering the cenotaph (from
way
up the street—barely visible from here)
is an equestrian statue.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig
(marked with his honorary title,
Earl
Haig
) was commander-in-chief of the British army from 1916 to 1918. He was respons-
ible for ordering so many brave and not-so-brave British boys out of the trenches and onto
the killing fields of World War I.
• Just past the cenotaph, on the other (west) side of Whitehall, is an iron security gate
guarding the entrance to Downing Street.
Britain's version of the White House is where the prime minister and his family live, at
#10 (in the black-brick building 300 feet down the blocked-off street, on the right; there's
a lantern and usually a security guard).
