The Toppling of King George III

On July 9th, 1776 a buzzing crowd of New Yorkers gathered in New York Common, now City Hall Park, to hear a public reading of the newly signed Declaration of Independence for the first time. After being signed in Philadelphia on the fourth, the document made its way to George Washington‘s headquarters at 1 Broadway in New York City. That evening, emboldened by the revolutionary words of the document, a zealous crowd of patriots barreled down to Bowling Green and defiantly toppled a gilded equestrian statue of King George III which had kept watch over the park from high atop a marble pedestal since 1770. What happened to the statue once it was torn down? Are there any pieces of it left? Join Justin Rivers to uncover the surprising fate of this historic statue!