1776

1. The year in which the Declaration of Independence was written.

Example Sentences

In 1776 the 13 states, not the entity called the United States, commanded people’s loyalties.

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“We seek a new revolution,” he said, “not less important, perhaps, in its consequences than that of 1776—a revolution in letters; a shaking off of the fetters of the mind.”

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Half the American people, Lincoln said, had no direct blood connection to the revolutionaries of 1776.

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There is no American ethnicity to back up the state, and there was no such distinctive ethnicity even in 1776, when the U.S. was created.

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On September 7, 1776, it made its historic, first-ever attack on an enemy warship when it attempted to sink British Admiral Richard Howe’s flagship H.M.S.

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