By 1952 Dwight Eisenhower looked to the Founding Fathers of 1776 to say:

By 1776, Saint Kitts had become the richest British colony in the Caribbean, per capita.

By the time the Declaration of Independence was adopted in July 1776, the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain had been at war for more than a year.

By 1776, the position of the British Secretary at War was a sophisticated managerial role, but the duties in 1661 to 1666 of England's first Secretary at War, Sir William Clarke, were more basic ones of literally handling the secretarial duties of managing official correspondence, memoranda, military orders, and financial accounts.

By 1776 Spanish exploration had reached Bucareli Bay including the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, and Sitka Sound.

By 1776 the Lakota had overwhelmed the Cheyenne and taken over much of their territory near the Black Hills.

By late spring of 1776, fewer than 200 colonists remained in Kentucky, primarily at the fortified settlements of Boonesborough, Harrodsburg, and Logan's Station.

By 1776, the Tây Sơn had occupied all of the Nguyễn Lord's land and killed almost the entire royal family.

By 1776, Spanish explorers had arrived and the Franciscan missionaries soon followed leaving numerous large land grants in their wake.

By 1774, his first mill was operational, and in 1776 he began construction of a second mill at Cromford.

By 1776, there were 2200 people living in North Attleborough.

By 1776, Bordentown was full of patriots.

By December 23, 1776, 2, 000 Hessians were moved from Bordentown and positioned at The Mount in Mount Holly, where they engaged in a three day-long artillery, known as the Battle of Iron Works Hill or Battle of Mount Holly, with the Americans on Iron Works Hill.

By the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 it is estimated from tax records that about 300 people resided in Springfield.

" By early July, 1776, he was instructed to vote in favor.

By 1776 some 1, 912 parish and corporation workhouses had been established in England and Wales, housing almost 100, 000 paupers.

By 1776 and the War of Independence, around 2, 000 Jews lived in America, most of them Sephardic Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin.

By June 1776, he had been promoted to Major General and given command of the Canadian Department to replace John Sullivan.

By November 1776, the fort had been taken over by Hessian forces and re-named Fort Prince Charles in honor of Charles, Duke of Brunswick, brother-in-law to George III.

By the time he wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776, Smith had studied the economic models of the French Physiocrats for many years, and in this work the invisible hand is more directly linked to the concept of the market: specifically that it is competition between buyers and sellers that channels the profit motive of individuals on both sides of the transaction such that improved products are produced and at lower costs.

* A Detail of Some Particular Services Performed in America, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779, Compiled from Journals and Original Papers ... taken from the Journal Kept on Board of the Ship ' Rainbow ' Commanded By Sir George Collier ( New York, 1835 )

By the act of parliament which passed for inclosing this parish in 1776, it appears that the Lees were entitled to the great tithes of Southwarp in Stone, and the earl of Chesterfield to those of the remainder of the parish.

By the winter of 1776, the Shawnee were effectively divided into a neutral faction led by Cornstalk, and militant bands led by men such as Blue Jacket.

By early 1776, as the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger recorded, Gelelemend had been " designated " as the successor to Netawatwees, who was thought to be close to 100 years old.

By then, the stranger was thanking Haney profusely and had one arm around his shoulders as if he were an old friend.

By 1911 the site had been overgrown with vallonea oaks and much plundered, but the circuit of the old walls could still be traced, and in several places they were fairly well preserved.

By 1993, all of the fixed-wing aircraft of the original EHV ( with the exception of the two old Nord 262 transports ) had been taken out of service, and either scrapped, sold off, or abandoned.

By then Jacob had become over 100 years old.

By the autumn of 1855, the royal apartments were ready, though the tower was still under construction and the servants had to be lodged in the old house.

By this time the small lake ( Lady Pool on old maps ) at the end of Ladypool Road had been filled-in to create a park.

By the 1960s, " the Big Apple " was known only as an old name for New York.

By a week old the calf is able to follow the mother all the time.

By the time of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, there were many calls, such as the May Fourth Movement, to completely abolish the old imperial institutions and practices of China.

By the time Confucius was 50 years old, the Ji family had consolidated their power in the Lu state over the ruling ducal house.

By prescribing recent advances in medicine, the Boston ministers modified the doctrine of theological pathogenesis in an attempt to maintain the old order according to which it was the clergy ’ s duty and privilege to interpret illnesses and their cures.

By the early 940s Constantine was an old man, perhaps more than 70 years of age.

By all accounts, Mucianus held the real power in Vespasian's absence and he was careful to ensure that Domitian, still only eighteen years old, did not overstep the boundaries of his function.

By constraining an individual to use only speech, it is believed that the brain can reestablish old neural pathways and recruit new neural pathways to compensate for lost function.

By the end, currency was flown in over the Himalayas, and then old currency was flown out to be destroyed.

By 10, 000 BCE, Homo sapiens had spread to all corners of the old

By contrast, a study of the jaguar in the Brazilian Pantanal region found average weights of 100 kg ( 220 lb ), and weights of or more are not uncommon in old males.

By coincidence he was visiting his old World War II battlefields in Tunisia where the film was being made.

By the time Mary was nine years old, it was apparent that Henry and Catherine would have no more children, leaving Henry without a legitimate male heir.

By the 17th century the influence of Renaissance painting resulted in Russian icons becoming slightly more realistic, while still following most of the old icon painting canons, as seen in the works of Bogdan Saltanov, Simon Ushakov, Gury Nikitin, Karp Zolotaryov and other Russian artists of the era.

By the time he was 13 years old, his father was also dead, having ended his days in Ballymena dependent on the charity of relatives.

By recalling the significance of old myths, he encouraged awareness of them and the creation of myths for the contemporary age.

By the time Henry conducted another Protestant marriage with his final wife Catherine Parr in 1543, the old Roman Catholic advisers, including the powerful third Duke of Norfolk had lost all their power and influence.

By the 14th century, a hamlet of fishermen's dwellings had established itself around the cove at Porthleven, named from the old Cornish " porth " ( harbour ) and " leven " ( level or smooth ).

By 1967, only 25 nations still used the old three-mile limit, while 66 nations had set a 12-mile territorial limit and eight had set a 200-mile limit.