1776 - the Declaration of Independence.
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 .
Fourscore and seven years is a phrase that means 87 years (a score is 20 years, so four score is 80 years plus 7). Subtracting 87 from 1863 gives you 1776. Therefore, fourscore and seven years subtracted from 1863 equals 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.
"Four score and six years" refers to a time period of 86 years. A "score" is equal to 20 years, so four score amounts to 80 years, and adding six gives a total of 86. This phrase is famously used in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, where he begins with "Four score and seven years ago," which refers to 87 years prior to the speech 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.