Less than a week later, the UA withdrew the offer.
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Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
29 May 2026
Historians say the original Liberty Pole was erected as British forces withdrew from New York following their defeat in the Revolutionary War, a symbolic act meant to assert American independence and taunt departing troops.
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