Arrival of the noble train of artillery
- When
- January 27, 1776
- Where
- Boston siege camps, identified with Cambridge, Massachusetts, from the legacy row
- Part of
- Knox's Artillery Transport
Knox completed the winter haul of captured cannon from Fort Ticonderoga and reported the weapons train's arrival to Washington in late January 1776.
Having reached Ticonderoga on December 5, Knox commenced the noble train of artillery, hauling 60 tons of cannon and other armaments by horse-drawn and ox-drawn sleds across some 300 miles of ice-covered rivers and snow-draped Berkshire Mountains to the Boston siege camps. The journey, expected to take two weeks, took more than six, and Knox finally reported the arrival of the weapons train to Washington on January 27, 1776. The ordnance, captured from Fort Ticonderoga in New York, proved decisive in the British evacuation of Boston in early 1776. The passages name the destination only as the Boston siege camps; Cambridge is retained as the arrival locality from the legacy row, not as a passage-supported fact.
Sources
- Henry Knox Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-08
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