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The 130-year-old monument, which currently stands in the center of an intersection, depicts Confederate General A.P. Hill, who was killed during the Third Battle of Petersburg in 1865.
The plaintiffs still have the opportunity to appeal, and the statue likely won't be taken down immediately.
The removal of Hill’s statue has taken longer because it is also his grave site. Hill’s remains were placed there in 1891.
Lieutentant Colonel Bertram Best-Dunkley was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in action in a counter attack against German forces in Belgium in July 1917.
Thousands of Kremlin soldiers could be trapped by Kyiv forces as Moscow braced for worst battlefield defeat since Second World War