Showing Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution by Seymour Reit

Paperback. Pub Date: August. 2001 Pages: 160 Publisher: Sandpiper Seymour Reit re-creates the true story of Will Knox. A nineteen-year-old boy who undertook the daring and Dangerous TASK of Transporting 183 Cannons from New York's Fort Ticonderoga to Boston-in the dead of winter-to help George Washington win an important battle. In the bitter winter of 1775-76. Colonel Henry Knox and his younger other Will. both of the Continental Army. become frustrated with the itish blockade of Boston and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga. over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness. to defend the besieged city.