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Thread #149706 Message #3484276
Posted By: dick greenhaus
27-Feb-13 - 10:22 AM
Thread Name: Nailing your colours to the mast...
Subject: RE: Nailing your colours to the mast...
historical note-
In the closing days of the American Revolution, when the English were leaving New York, an enterprising Brit nailed the Union Jack to the top of a flagpole in Battery Park, and greased the pole on his way down. General Washington was waiting in what is now Union Square, for the colors to come down. He had a long wait. There's still a statue of him, mounted, in the Square, reportedly commemorating the incident.