Cabbie’s Curios: Trafalgar Square’s American Patch

At whatever point I have American vacationers in my taxi I generally appreciate bringing up the statue of George Washington which remains outside the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square.

 

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Divulged on the 30th June 1921, the statue was a thoughtful blessing from the United States and is in truth a copy, in light of Frenchman, Jean Antoine Houdon’s marble adaptation (appointed during the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson) which can be found in Richmond, Virginia.

 

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The statue shows Washington resting upon a ‘fasces’; a collection of wooden rods that the Romans employed as a symbol of authority. There are thirteen sticks in Washington’s bundle, representative of America’s original thirteen states.

 

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As the Commander In Chief during the War of Independence and of course, the first-ever President of the United States, George Washington is once rumored to have said, “I will never set foot in London again!

 

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It is said that those liable for introducing Washington’s statue in London bore the amazing President’s conclusion as the main priority thus orchestrated an amount of Virginian soil to be put underneath the plinth, along these lines guaranteeing that the statue is in fact on American turf…

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