Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address

Posted in Anniversary, Famous battles, History, Law on Monday, 8 November 2010

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Abraham Lincoln delivers the famous Gettysburg Address

19 November marks the anniversary of one of the most famous speeches in American history. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln addressed attendees at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, speaking only for a couple of minutes. Accounts of his words differ slightly in various reports and even Lincoln’s own handwritten notes in preparation differ, but the most widely accepted version is known as the Bliss version as it was written down by Lincoln for his friend Colonel Alexander Bliss.

The speech begins “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” and ends “we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”.

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