The nation’s 250th Anniversary is approaching. The National Association of Scholars is commemorating the events leading up to the Second Continental Congress officially adopting the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
Henry Knox was only 25 years old when he convinced George Washington to trust him with retrieving nearly 60 tons of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga and getting it to Boston before the winter was out. A Boston bookseller turned self-taught artilleryman, Knox had already shown in the siege lines that he possessed the combination of […]
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