Victoria is the name, in Roman mythology, of the goddess of victory. She is related to her Greek sister, Nike. Both are winged. The most famous is the Nike of Samothrace from the 2nd century BC. It was many centuries before she was turned into a Berlin Victoria. Not until after the wars of liberation do we find her in Berlin. The Goddess of Peace, who rides the triumphal chariot on the Brandenburg Gate was given a symbol of victory in 1814 in the form of an iron cross, which was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. With that she was christened Victoria. In the entablature under the gables of Schinkel's "Neue Wache" we find her soon after in eight small variations by Gottfried Schadow. As a memorial to the victory of the "Belle Alliance" at Waterloo (1815) more Victorias were built around Berlin by Rauch around 1840. One of them is still standing today on Mehringplatz at Hallesches Tor, another is in the Schinkel pavilion in the palace gardens (Schloßpark) at Charlottenburg. It is noticeable that they are both on pedestals. They were models for the Victory Column. In another prominent place in Berlin stand four more Victorias, on the castle bridge (Schloßbrücke) between Zeughaus and Lustgarten. The sculptor Friedrich Drake produced at least one of these; he was to go on to build the large Victoria for the Berlin Victory Column.