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Always nice to see Henry Knox get recognition.

1 posted on 03/18/2006 5:17:14 AM PST by Pharmboy

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2 posted on 03/18/2006 5:24:09 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)

One of America's greatest, and most underrated, heroes.

3 posted on 03/18/2006 7:11:02 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)

"In 1774, as the situation between Great Britain and the American colonies was heating up, General George Washington inspected a rampart at Roxbury designed by Knox and was instantly taken with the young man's abilities.

Knox soon became Washington's Chief of Artillery, and earned a place in history in the winter of 1776 by carting sixty tons of captured cannon from Fort Ticonderoga in New York to Dorchester Heights, driving the British from Boston Harbor.

Throughout most of the war he was by Washington's side, and eventually rose to Major-General. Following the war he was Washington's choice for the first Secretary at War. They remained life-long friends."
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http://www.generalknoxmuseum.org/knoxbio.html

(It also mentions that 10 of his 13 children did not live to adulthood.)

4 posted on 03/18/2006 7:26:44 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta (There's always a reason to choose life.)

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