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Traversing winter landscape in New England pulling cannons (took months) |
- Washington Takes Command of the Continental Army - Massachusetts History's overview.
- Henry Knox Trail - this page shows commemorative markers along the route taken by Knox.
- The Knox Trail - report by the Hudson River Valley History organization about the 1926/7 effort by the States of New York and Massachusetts which provided the map below.
- The guns of Ticonderoga - gives an overview of the event, with the consequence of the British rmoving their huge force and ships.
- Dragging cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, 1775 - letter from Knox to Washington written along the way.
- Henry Knox Cannon Trail - there are two Revolutionary War Routes in the Hudson River Valley covered in the page. The second is the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route related to northern events in the war during which the French joined in the fray. After success in the north, the majority of the focus was the south.
- On the night of March 4, the cannons were moved into position on Dorchester Heights, overlooking the city and the harbor. On March 5, when British General William Howe learned what the colonists had done, he exclaimed that “these fellows have done more work in one night than I could make my army do in three months.” On March 6, 1776, he gave the order to prepare for evacuation. On Saint Patrick’s Day 1776, 120 ships carried 9,000 British soldiers, 1,200 dependents, and 1,100 Loyalists out of Boston. On the deck of one ship, the merchant George Erving told other Loyalists, “Gentlemen, not one of you will ever see that place again.”
08/01/2025 - Edit typos; changed Felt's book from Salem to Ipswich; added image of the cannons being pulled by oxen, horse, and men.
08/17/2025 -- Spelling change: Massassachusetts to Massachusetts - I'll blame it on repeating characters forming repetition of a group of characters ;>). Though I have the writing assist turned off. Errors let the world know that the typist was human. Being a touch typist, there is always some delta difference twixt what the mind thinks and then imagines and then what the fingers do and finally how the magic of input from keystroke to blips on the screen for the eyeballs to see as empirical evidence.
08/26/2025 -- Turns out that a church in Trenton, NJ was site of some of the fighting: St. Michael's. We did a post on that today.