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World Service,2 mins

The king who lost America

The Documentary

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How the US rejected royal authority by toppling a gilded statue of George III in Bowling Green Park in New York in 1776. David Cannadine talks to Barnet Schecter New York City historian and Martha Groppo, Princeton University graduate student. (Image: George III by German artist Johan Zoffany, Credit: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images)

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