"Hangman, Year of the"
"Hangman, Year of the"
"HANGMAN, YEAR OF THE." To superstitious patriots, particularly in the Continental Congress, the last three digits of 1777 suggested gibbets awaiting them should their cause fail. Also widely called "the year of the bloody sevens."
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