id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5135 Quadriga - Wikipedia .html text/html 2085 199 67 The quadriga was adopted in ancient Roman chariot racing. The word quadriga may refer to the chariot alone, the four horses without it, or the combination. In 1797, Napoleon carried the quadriga off to Paris, but, after Napoleon's fall, in 1815, the horses were returned to Venice by Louis XVIII, King of France. Modern quadrigas[edit] 1893 – Columbus Quadriga atop the Peristyle Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Daniel Chester French, sculpture.[4] c. 1898 – Atop Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, lady Columbia, an allegorical representation of the United States, rides in a chariot drawn by two horses. 1904[6] – Victory and Progress, horse-drawn chariots by J. Massey Rhind on the Wayne County Building in Detroit, Michigan, though each of the two chariots is drawn by three instead of the customary four horses. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quadriga. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5135.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5135.txt