First Pole Cut Down
- When
- August 1766
- Where
- Manhattan, New York
A liberty pole erected by the Sons of Liberty in New York City was destroyed by royal authorities, beginning a cycle of destruction and replacement.
The supplied passages establish that in New York City an often violent struggle over poles erected by the Sons of Liberty raged for ten years, with the poles periodically destroyed by royal authorities only to be replaced by the Sons with new ones, a conflict lasting from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 until the revolutionary New York Provincial Congress came to power in 1775. The first destruction of a pole in this cycle is dated approximately to August 1766, though the sources do not directly document that specific occurrence.
Sources
- Liberty pole Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-22
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