1. Guns for General Washington
by Seymour Reit

2. Portraits of General Henry Knox

3. Knox Cannon Trail 1775-1776
Fort Ticonderoga, New York Colony to Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
300 Miles Over Mountains, Snow, and Ice

4. "The Noble
Train of
Artillery"
by Tom Lovell
General Knox and his
men averaged
approximately 5 ⅜
miles per day,
completing the 300
mile trip in 56 days.

5. Ox Team Hauling Ticonderoga's Guns

6. January 24, 1776
In 1776, Colonel Henry Knox reached the headquarters of
the Continental Army in Cambridge. The young Boston
bookseller had pulled off a daring plan. He had led a small group
of men on a 300-mile journey from Boston to Fort Ticonderoga in
New York State. Once there, the party disassembled cannon taken
when the British surrendered the fort and retreated to Canada in
May of 1775. In less than two months time, Knox and his men
moved 60 tons of artillery across lakes and rivers, through ice and
snow to Boston. On the 7th
of March, 2,000 Continental soldiers
maneuvered the guns to a hill overlooking the city. The British
had no choice but to evacuate Boston. Knox’s daring plan was a
success that lead to the British evacuation of Boston.

7. Knox and Washington
General Knox continued as artillery officer and fought in many
battles of the Revolutionary War. After the War, he became the
first Secretary of War under President Washington. After 10
years in that position, he retired.

8. Mansion in Thomaston, Maine
After Knox retired in 1794, he lived here with his wife, Lucy, until he died in
1806. The building was razed in 1871 to make way for the Knox and Lincoln
Railroad. The Montpelier Museum today is housed in a replica of the original
mansion.

9. Knox Canon Trail
Marker
1927
The Henry Knox Cannon Trail follows the
route that Colonel Henry Knox used to
transport 59 cannons from Crown Point and
Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in the winter of 1775-76.
Fifty-six monuments were installed along
the route in 1927 to commemorate the
arduous 56-day journey. Thirty of the
granite monuments and bronze plaques
mark the route in New York from Fort
Ticonderoga to the Massachusetts border
near Hillsdale. Starting near Great
Barrington, 26 monuments mark the trail in
Massachusetts. The installation of these
monuments represents one of the earliest
heritage trails created in the United States.