A score is 20, so four score would be 80, plus 7. Four score and seven years ago would be 87 years ago that Lincoln is referring to in his Gettysburg Address
87.It was the time that had elapsed since the Declaration of Independence, when Lincoln made the Gettysburg Address.Lincoln used this bibilical way of talking, to try to add gravitas to the Address,...
87... score = 20, four score = 4*20 = 80, four score and seven = (4*20)+7 = 87. Makes sense because this was after the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 about right figuring declaration of independence was...