 The lion is the heraldic beast on the personal coat of arms of the monarch of The Netherlands, and symbolizes courage.Its right front paw is upon a sphere, signifying global victory.The statue weighs , has a height of and a length of .William Cockerill's iron foundry in Liège cast the lion, in sections; a canal barge brought those pieces to Brussels; from there, heavy horse-drays drew the parts to Mont-St-Jean, a low ridge south of Waterloo.