[Age of Reason]

the picture on top, the thicker bars were topped with regal symbols such as orbs. These were knocked off by the Patriots on that July 9.

That's something I didn't know. Very interesting.

[Pharmboy]

One other key issue that was not mentioned. It was on July 9, 1776 that General Washington had the Declaration of Independence read to the troops bivouacked on, what is today, City Hall Park. Fired up, they then marched downtown, past St Paul’s Chapel on Broadway (one of the few colonial-era buildings still standing in Manhattan) and had-at George III.