Forgotten revolutionary war heroes biography
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1.Forgotten revolutionary war heroes biography
Henry Knox
From Henry Knox’s days as a teenage street brawler in Boston, fighting was in his blood. Although the co-founder of the Boston Grenadier Corps lacked a military education, he knew where to find it—on the shelves of his shop, the London Book Store.
The plump, year-old bookseller quickly impressed George Washington when he arrived in to take command of the Continental Army during the siege of Boston. “Knox was really responsible for the patriots’ first victory when they forced the British out of Boston,” according to Jack Kelly, author of the book Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence.
Tasked with transporting cannons from the recently captured Fort Ticonderoga, Knox managed to move the heavy artillery over miles of winter terrain using enormous ox-drawn sleds until they pointed at the British from Dorchester Heights and forced their evacuation.
Washington, who Kelly says had “an extraordinary knack for reading men and sensing ability,” c