Clarke Peters
speaker
443 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Clarke Peters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's April 26th, 1770.
We're in New York City.
On Bowling Green at the southern end of Broadway, the great and the good are out on show.
Pillars of the community make small talk.
Clergymen, politicians, entrepreneurs.
They're all here, bustling around the park.
With an estimated population of 25,000, the city is not yet the Big Apple.
No yellow taxis roar up and down Broadway, just carriages, horses, and carts.
Even so, in the late 18th century, New York is one of the biggest settlements on the continent, a gateway connecting the British colonies of North America with the wide world beyond.
Today is a celebration of those global links and a chance to express what is supposedly in the hearts of all true patriots.
With the dignitaries in place, the ceremony begins.
In the distance, a military band plays, the prelude to a succession of speeches.
Next, a bone-jangling 32-gun salute blasts out.
It's all because of a glimmering new addition to the New York landscape, a giant statue of the most beloved man in the city, His Majesty King George III of Great Britain.
For more than 150 years, Britain's colonists in America have prided themselves on their devotion to the crown.
Some say Americans love the monarch more than those in Great Britain itself.
As New Yorkers toast the king's health, the colony's lieutenant governor looks with wonder at the statue, two tons of gilded lead, sparkling in the spring sunshine.
It depicts the king as a Roman emperor sat on horseback,
At 15 feet high, it towers over everyone in its presence.
For the lieutenant governor, it's artistic perfection.
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