The Spirit of '76

Cultural  

1. A painting from the nineteenth century by Archibald M. Willard, depicting three soldiers of the American Revolutionary War. Though one is wounded, they are marching on with spirit and determination.

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Example Sentences

Wyatt recalled a time when vendors were moving records by Ya Ho Wah 13, Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76 and other Family-related recordings for $20 or less because the Source had fallen out of fashion and the sellers “didn’t know what they had.”

From Los Angeles Times

During the war, for example, the producer of a film, “The Spirit of ’76,” was prosecuted under the act and sentenced to prison in 1918 because the government believed the movie undermined the British, a World War I ally, and was therefore seditious, said Mark S. Zaid, a national security lawyer.

From New York Times

Benjamin Rush, the prominent Philadelphia physician and permanently incandescent revolutionary, urged Madison to stop this betrayal of the spirit of ’76: “Never have I heard more rage expressed against the Oppressors of our Country during the late War,” Rush fumed, than I daily hear against the men who...are to reap all the benefits of the revolution, at the expense of the greatest part of the Virtue & property that purchased it.”

From Literature

Instead, he saw the French Revolution as the European continuation of the spirit of ’76.

From Literature

Jefferson would oversee and orchestrate this campaign and provide its rhetorical foundation, which enjoyed a privileged association with the spirit of ’76.

From Literature