by Patricia N. Saffran Every revolutionary since July 9, 1776 knows to pull down the statue of the oppressor. On that date at the Common in New York City, Thomas Jefferson read out loud the Declaration of Independence which he had written. Then the troops and crowd walked a mile down Broadway to Bowling Green. There they threw down the two ton gilded lead version of King George III as a mounted Roman emperor. The rabid crowd didn’t stop at merely toppling the statue. Captain John Montresor, a British officer,…
