Tim stark army12/30/2023 ![]() The Henry Knox Cannon Trail Monuments in New York are listed below. Besides Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, key heritage sites to visit in New York include the Schuyler House in Schuylerville and Saratoga National Historical Park in Stillwater. Begin your travels in New York at any place along the route. The installation of these monuments represents one of the earliest heritage trails created in the United States. Starting near Great Barrington, 26 monuments mark the trail in Massachusetts. Thirty of the granite monuments and bronze plaques mark the route in New York from Fort Ticonderoga to the Massachusetts border near Hillsdale. The Route Todayįifty-six monuments were installed along the route in 1927 to commemorate the arduous 56-day journey. On March 18 the victorious Continental Army marched into the city. Recognizing they were trapped and with plans to take New York, the British troops-accompanied by many Loyalists-began to leave. On January 24 the last of Knox’s “noble train of artillery” arrived in Cambridge.īy early March, with Knox’s heavy guns arrayed on Dorchester Heights, Washington was ready to bombard the British entrenched in Boston. Aided at times by slippery ice and snow, hindered at other times by rain and mud, Knox cajoled the weary men and beasts up and down the slopes of the Berkshire Mountains and across Massachusetts. Knox, accompanied by his 19-year-old brother William and a servant, arrived at Lake Champlain on December 5 and selected 59 artillery pieces for the 250-mile trek to Boston. Assisted by the garrison at Ticonderoga, Knox began moving the cannons, which weighed a total of nearly 120,000 pounds, on ox carts, boats, then sleds pulled by oxen-and later horses-down the lake and along the Hudson to Albany where he crossed. He put the bookish, self-taught artillerist in charge of the army’s nearly nonexistent artillery and sent him to New York to bring back the guns. ![]() Colonel Henry Knox, a 25-year-old Bunker Hill volunteer, promoted a scheme-apparently first suggested by Arnold-that the Patriots transport the guns from Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point to Boston to help with the siege. As the siege dragged on into the fall, General Washington and his officers debated whether to sit tight or attack. The colonists did not have enough gunpowder and heavy artillery to force the British out of Boston. Washington was honored but worried as he assumed command on July 3. On June 19 the Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington commander in chief of the Continental Army besieging Boston. They had foiled the British at Lexington and Concord, besieged Boston, and inflicted heavy casualties on King George III’s troops in the Battle of Bunker (Breed’s) Hill. ![]() In May of 1775 Colonels Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured Ticonderoga and Crown Point, two British forts on Lake Champlain in upstate New York. Courtesy Tom Lovell, Dixon Ticonderoga Company Collection Henry Knox’s “noble train of artillery” pushes on through the deep snow.
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