Henry Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery

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In the fall of 1775, the British and American forces were stuck in a prolonged stalemate around Boston, Massachusetts. Then, a young bookseller with a passion for fortifications and artillery, came to General Washington with a bold idea. Join me on Footnoting History as we learn about Henry Knox’s ambitious plan to save the fledgling American Revolution.

Host: Ted

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Further Reading

Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, Henry Holt and Company, 2019. 

Derek W. Beck, “Henry Knox’s “Noble Train of Artillery:” No Ox for Knox”, Journal of the American Revolution, 2019. 

Victor Brooks, The Boston Campaign, Combined Publishing, 1999.

Bernard A. Drew, Henry Knox and the Revolutionary War Trail in Western Massachusetts, McFarland &Company, 2012.

Phillip Hamilton, The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

William Elliot Hazelgrove, Henry Knox's Noble Train: The Story of a Boston Bookseller's Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution, Prometheus, 2020.

Nathaniel Philbrick, Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution, Viking, 2013.

Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2010.

Fort Ticonderoga National Park: Henry Knox’s Noble Train of Artillery: Ticonderoga to the Siege of Boston.

National Park Service, Siege of Boston Map.

Hudson River Valley Institute, Knox Trail. 

​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)