Monument van Tacambaro, War memorial and sculpture in Oudenaarde, Belgium.

Monument van Tacambaro is a neo-classical mausoleum by sculptor Guillaume Geefs, inaugurated in 1867 on Tacambaroplein. A white marble allegory of Glory, a semi-reclining mourning woman, rests on a globe and holds a crown of immortelles and a martyr's palm, gazing toward Mexico. She sits on a two-tiered grey stone pedestal whose blocks bear the names of the fallen volunteers in gilded letters, with a bed of white flowers at its base.

The monument was funded by a national subscription and inaugurated on 13 October 1867 on Tacambaroplein, with sculptor Guillaume Geefs present. It recalls the Belgian volunteer legion's occupation of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, in April 1865 and its surrender to Nicolás Régules' juarista troops; among the seventeen dead were Major Constant Tydgadt and Captain Jules Ernest Chazal, son of Belgium's war minister.

The marble woman is an allegory of glory, mourning: she rests on a globe, holds a crown of immortelles in one hand and the palm of martyrdom in the other, and looks toward Mexico. Golden letters on the pedestal carry the names of the Belgian volunteers killed and Marshal Bazaine's order of the day praising their bravery.

The monument stands on Tacambaroplein in central Oudenaarde, a short walk from the town hall where the inauguration speeches were held on 13 October 1867 because of bad weather. The square is level and open on foot. Look for the gilded names of the fallen volunteers and Marshal Bazaine's order of the day engraved on the pedestal.

The monument appears on the cover of Zwart verleden, a crime novel by Stefaan Desmet featuring John Six, and also plays a role in the plot. Its counterpart in Leopoldsburg is a 6.5-metre column bearing the names of the dead of Tacámbaro, Loma and Morelia, inaugurated quietly in 1867 because of the commotion the Mexican expedition caused in Belgium.