On this day 250 years ago, Col. Henry Knox arrived at Fort Ticonderoga, New York under orders to bring artillery to the Continental Army besieging Boston. The next day he would begin loading 58 artillery pieces (mostly 12-pounder and 18-pounder and a 24-pounder cannon, nicknamed “Old Sow,” that weighed more than 5,000 pounds, plus some mortars) weighing in all 60 tons, to take back to Boston onto what would later be called his “Noble train of artillery.”
Starting today, Friday, December 5, 2025 and continuing through Sunday, December 7, Fort Ticonderoga is commemorating the 250th anniversary of the start of Henry Knox’s Noble Train of Artillery.
Sources: https://fortticonderoga.org/news/henry-knoxs-noble-train-of-artillery-in-context/; https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/guns-ticonderoga; https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/adirondacks-almanack/fort-ticonderoga-marks-250th-anniversary-of-american-revolutions-noble-train-of-artillery/
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I can’t imagine the difficulty they must have had hauling a 2-1/2 ton artillery piece 300 miles (220 miles on today’s highways) from New York to Boston over the clearings they called “roads” back then. A simple Google search tells me it was no easy task. Even 144 years later, young Dwight Eisenhower proved this country lacked roads to transport interstate military equipment.
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