Thursday, October 10, 2013

Henry Knox

                                        By J

Henry Knox was a plump bookseller in Boston in 1775.

Boston needed cannons to scare away the British.  So Henry Knox went to Fort Ticonderoga to retrieve the cannons that they had captured & bring them back…  300 miles in the winter!

On the way back to Boston, a barge carrying cannons started to sink, but they worked together to patch & bail & saved the boats & the cannons.  Then, one of the carts carrying cannons broke through the ice.  No one is sure how Henry Knox rescued the cannons.  I think he swam in the water.

After a long, hard 50 days, Henry Knox finally got all the cannons to Boston.  Not a single cannon was lost, & no one quit. 


GO HENRY KNOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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