Editing Fasces (section)

=== Revolution ===
[[File:George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon - DSC05829.JPG|thumb|A bronze cast of [[Jean-Antoine Houdon]]'s statue of [[George Washington]]. Washington's left arm rests on a cloak over fasces with thirteen rods.{{sfn|Brennan|2022|p=140}} ]]

As an emblem, fasces made their way to the colonies in [[British colonization of the Americas|British North America]].{{sfn|Brennan|2022|p=138}} There, during the [[American Revolution]], the fasces' symbology as referencing strength through unity was adopted as a symbol of the united colonial effort against British rule.{{sfn|Brennan|2022|pp=138 et seq}}

Fasces similarly came to adopt a privileged symbology during the [[French Revolution]]. First referring to the 83 [[Departments of France|departments]] of 1789, as a symbol of unity, it came to be associated with [[Liberté, égalité, fraternité|''fraternité'']] and a united French people.{{sfn|Brennan|2022|pp=142–43}} Topped with a [[Phrygian cap]], fasces were seen as a reference to the "imagined spirit of the early Roman republic [and] its assertion of ideals of liberty and justice against tyranny".{{sfn|Brennan|2022|p=144}} In France, however, use of fasces as a symbol declined starting with the establishment of the [[French Consulate|Consulate]] in 1799 through to the proclamation of the [[French Second Republic|Second Republic]] in 1848.{{sfn|Brennan|2022|pp=153–55}}

Similar usage proliferated in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Haiti, in its revolution against France, coined with many depictions of fasces, as did [[First Mexican Republic|Mexico]] during its first republic, Ecuador, Chile, and the [[Roman Republic (18th century)|Roman Republic]] of 1798.{{sfn|Brennan|2022|p=152}}