Henry Knox's noble train : the story of a Boston bookseller's heroic expedition that saved the American Revolution /
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-treac...
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Prometheus Books,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Part One The Bookseller and the General
- Fort Ticonderoga Lake George
- Boston on Edge
- His Excellency
- The Rebel Bookseller
- The Frustrated General
- The Bookseller meets the General
- The Heights of Dorchester
- Part II The Expedition
- Starting Out
- Onto New York and Albany
- Washington on Ice
- Fort George
- Fort Ticonderoga
- The Hell of Lake George
- The Man Who Started the French and Indian War
- A Noble Train
- The Bad General
- Heading Back Down
- Crossing the Ice
- The Life and Times of a Teamster
- Cannon Down Half Moon
- The Third Column
- The Albany
- Winter in Boston
- All The Kingdoms of the Earth
- Common Sense
- A Sinister Violence of Intention
- The Devils Staircase
- Cannon in the Mud
- Deliverance
- The Final Leg
- Part Three The Heights
- Colonel of the Artillery
- The Cannons of Ticonderoga
- At Dawns Light
- The Prodigal Son Returns
- The Unborn Millions.