military roads

Through words and vivid artwork, tells the story of bookseller Henry Knox, who in 1775 dragged 59 cannons the 225 wilderness miles from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, to aid his fellow Revolutionary War patriots.

In 1775, in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox and his men dragged 120,000 pounds of cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, NY, to Boston--225 miles of lakes, forest, mountains, and very few roads. It was a feat of remarkable ingenuity and determination and one of the most remarkable stories of the Revolutionary War.