NY, USA
Knox Transports Crown Point and Ticonderoga Cannon to Boston
December 5, 1775
In November 1775, Washington sent Henry Knox north to retrieve the captured artillery. Knox oversaw the movement of approximately sixty tons of cannon and mortars across frozen Lake George and the Berkshire Mountains to Boston. Washington used the guns to occupy Dorchester Heights on March 4–5, 1776, threatening the British fleet in Boston Harbor and forcing the British evacuation on March 17. Without Crown Point's artillery, the Boston siege had no resolution.
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Boston bookseller turned Continental artillery chief who organized the "Noble Train of Artillery" in winter 1775–1776 — hauling sixty tons of cannon from Crown Point and Ticonderoga across frozen Lake George and the Berkshires to Boston. Washington used them to occupy Dorchester Heights in March 1776, forcing the British evacuation of the city.