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The first monument to Adolf was a simple truncated obelisk with an urn, created in 1826. It was poorly maintained and, by 1868, was badly deteriorated. That year, it was torn down and a contest was organized to design a replacement for Adolf's three-hundredth anniversary. The winning design was by
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after his horse bolted and crossed
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Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War (United
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Graef Adolff is ghebleven, In Vriesland in den slaech,
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