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I have included in my list the statue of two other British wartime premiers memorialised in Parliament Square. One is Viscount Palmerston, another Liberal, whose robust leadership and refusal to accept defeat during the Crimean War ensured that British interests and prestige were maintained during that period of immense geopolitical shift. The other is Benjamin Disraeli, the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, whose decisive role at the Congress of Berlin, backed up by the naval action that he took in the Dardanelles, did so much to secure peace with honour, preventing a major European war and curbing Russian expansion in the Balkans.