A score is 20 so four score and 7 is 87. 1863- 87 = 1776 .
A speech delivered by President Lincoln in 1863 commemorating Independence Day. Four scores and seven years: 4 scores x 20 years/score + 7 yrs.= 80 yrs + 7 yrs. = 87 years 1863 - 87 = 1776 which was the year the then United States declared independence on July 4.
87The term "score" refers to a unit of twenty years; four score, is 4 20s or 80 years, and 7, is 87 years. 87 years, prior to 1863 (the year the Gettysburg Address, was given.), was 1776, the year of the American Revolution.
That was just Lincoln trying to sound Biblical about the Declaration of Independence (1776) as he made the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
One score is 20 years so four score (80) and seven years ago would be 87 years.
A score is 20 so four score and 7 is 87. 1863- 87 = 1776 .
Lincoln's Emancipation was proclaimed great honor and contact officicated in glory.
"Four score and seven years" which indicates 87 years (4x20 +7), the time between the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) and the Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863).87a score is 20 years, so 4 score is 80 years plus 7.
A speech delivered by President Lincoln in 1863 commemorating Independence Day. Four scores and seven years: 4 scores x 20 years/score + 7 yrs.= 80 yrs + 7 yrs. = 87 years 1863 - 87 = 1776 which was the year the then United States declared independence on July 4.
87The term "score" refers to a unit of twenty years; four score, is 4 20s or 80 years, and 7, is 87 years. 87 years, prior to 1863 (the year the Gettysburg Address, was given.), was 1776, the year of the American Revolution.
That was just Lincoln trying to sound Biblical about the Declaration of Independence (1776) as he made the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
One score is 20 years so four score (80) and seven years ago would be 87 years.
a score, as in "Four score and seven years..."
Believe it to be Abraham Lincoln. "Fore score and seven years ago..." is the beginning of Lincoln's Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg, PA on November 19, 1863.
A score is equal to twenty. "Four score and seven years" is eighty-seven years.
the singing of the declaration of independence. The Gettysburg address was in 1863 four score and seven years ago refers to 87 years which is 1776 the singing of the Declaration of Independence.
President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863. This speech was written on a napkin during the train ride to where the speech was being held. Four score and seven years is 87 years, a reference to 1776 when we declared our independence from the British.