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Henry Knox's Noble Train: How a Boston Booksellers Expedition Saved the American Revolution

Published: June 9, 2020, 6:45 a.m.

During the brutal winter of 1775-1776, an untested Boston bookseller named Henry Knox commandeered an oxen train hauling sixty tons of cannons and other artillery from Fort Ticonderoga near the Canadian border. He and his men journeyed some three...