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

History Unplugged Podcast · Jun 9, 2020 · 47m

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 hundred miles south and east over frozen, often-treacherous terrain to supply George Washington for his attack of British troops occupying Boston. The result was the British surrender of Boston and the first major victory for the Colonial Army.

William Hazelgrove, author of “Henry Knox’s Noble Train,” joins us today to discuss one of the great…