Continental Army soldiers on Lower Manhattan were assembled under orders of Gen. Washington to hear the Declaration of Independence read, the first they would have been aware that they were fighting for an entity that had declared itself independent of the United Kingdom.
British troops were being assembled on Staten Island for an offensive.
That evening a gilded lead statute of King George III was toppled in Bowling Green, New York, and melted into musket balls.
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