American’s in London

Alligatorob said:
Interesting, did not know.

Why George Washington? Did not seem like a friend to the British, maybe enough time has past.

Who puts these up?
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The inscription on the plinth says, “Presented to the people of Great Britain and Ireland by the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1921.”

There is a story that, since Washington once said he would never stand on English ground again, this statue was supplied with some good ol' American soil on which to stand.
 
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George Washington bronze statue in London:

After WW1, the state of Virginia had noted an opportunity to mend fences with a former enemy. The gift was presented by a Virginia delegation and was accepted by the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Curzon.

Louis Smith, the head of the American delegation, said in his presentation address: "Virginia's plea and that of the English-speaking nations of the world, so recently united in war, should unite again for the more complex task of peace, and in the closest and most unselfish co-operation enter at once upon a joint program of world leadership and reconstruction".

George Curzon said of George Washington, “...because he was a great Englishman -- one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived, because although he fought us and vanquished us he was fighting for ideals and principles which were as sacred to us as they were to the American people and which were embedded in the very fibers of our common race."

“The defeat that he inflicted on us was our gain; he laid the foundations of a structure which we could never have laid, and which required for its accomplishment the genius of an emancipated race.”
 
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George Washington said, "I have often heard others of my family, older than myself, say that our ancestors came from some of the Northern Counties of England, but which one I do not precisely remember."

A short video of the ancestral home of George Washington. Sulgrave Manor, Banbury, Northamptonshire, England.

Anyone notice at 0:25 into the video, the Washington family’s coat of arms carved in stone, that seems to be some kind of stars & stripes??? :unsure: Seen on the Flag of Washington, D.C. and seen on the Purple Heart military decoration.

 
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