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Subject: [GM-L] Taking Fort Ti (includes moving 59 cannon 300 miles to Boston)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 20:00:03 EDT

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<A HREF="http://www.wmn.net/rowleytw/Other/Stories/mono-007.html">Taking
Fort Ti</A>

A Footnote to the Affair: After the Battle of Breed's Hill (near Bunker Hill
in Massachusetts) General Washington regarded the need for the cannon and
other armaments from Fort Ticonderoga so great that "no Trouble or Expence
must be spared to obtain them." The task of bringing them to Boston fell to
Henry Knox, a former bookseller, who became commander of the artillery. He
selected 59 of Fort Ticonderoga's guns and the cannon for a wintry 300-mile
trip. They were installed at Dorchester Heights, overlooking Boston on March
5, 1776 to the astonishment of the British and the gratitude of George
Washington.

Photo of actual letter from Ethan Allen begins this history of the taking of
Fort
Tidconderoga

A letter from Ethan Allen to the Governor of Connecticut, written
two days after the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775.
Honorable Sir- I make you a present of a Major a Captain and Two
Lieuts in the regular establishment of George the Third. I hope they
may serve as ransom for some of our friends at Boston and particularly
for Capt Brown of Rhode Island. . .

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