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John Chapman House |
New Hope |
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Knox Headquarters |
New Windsor, NY |
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Plukemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site |
Washington Camp Ground |
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Jacobus Vanderveer House |
Pluckemin |
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| 1770/03/05 |
British Regulars shoot American colonist, killing five and injuring six, in front of the old State House |
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Old State House |
Boston |
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Boston Massacre |
| 1770/03/05 |
British Regulars shoot American colonist, killing five and injuring six, in front of the old State House |
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Old State House |
Boston |
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American Revolution - From Protest to Revolt |
| 1775/06/17 |
American colonists battle British regular military forces. |
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Bunker Hill Monument |
Boston |
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Battle of Bunker Hill |
| 1775/06/17 |
American colonists battle British regular military forces. |
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Bunker Hill Monument |
Boston |
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1775 American Revolution - The War Begins |
| 1775/11/00 |
George Washington consults Henry Knox on where to obtain artillery |
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Noble Train of Artillery |
| 1775/12/00 |
Henry Knox arrives at Fort Ticonderoga to acquire cannons to used in the siege of Boston. |
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Fort Ticonderoga |
Ticonderoga |
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Noble Train of Artillery |
| 1775/12/12 |
From Ft George, Henry Knox writes Cap George Palmer asking him to obtain 40 good strong sleds, each to carry a 5400 lb Cannon clear from dragging on the ground and to procure Oxen or horses to drag them from Ft Ticonderoga to Cambridge. |
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Lake George Battlefield Park Historic District |
Lake George |
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Noble Train of Artillery |
| 1776/01/00 |
Knox Expedition drag cannons from Fort Ticonderoga in New York through Roxbury to Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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John Eliot Square District, Roxbury |
Boston |
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Noble Train of Artillery |
| 1776/01/25 |
Henry Knox arrives in Boston with cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, used to fortify Dorchester Heights. |
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Dorchester Heights National Historic Site |
Boston |
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Noble Train of Artillery |
| 1776/01/25 |
Henry Knox arrives in Boston with cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, used to fortify Dorchester Heights. |
Expedition Leader |
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Dorchester Heights National Historic Site |
Boston |
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Siege of Boston |
| 1777/09/11 |
American Revolution Battle between the troops of George Washington and the British troops of William Howe. |
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Brandywine Battlefield |
Chadds Ford |
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Battle of Brandywine |
| 1780/09/29 |
Board of Senior Officers find Andre guilty of being behind American lines "under a feigned name and in a disguised habit" and order that he "ought to be considered as a Spy from the enemy ... it is their opinion, he ought to suffer death." |
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Capture of Major Andre |
| 1783/12/04 |
With Knox at his side, GW says farewell to his officers, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable." |
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Fraunces Tavern |
New York City |
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1781 American Revolution - After Yorktown |
| 1790/00/00 |
Secretary of War Henry Knox approves Oliver Evans patent for an Automatic Flour Mill. |
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Invention of the Automatic Flour Mill |
| 1790/07/10 |
George Washington and his cabinet (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Henry Knox, and Alexander Hamilton) dine at the Morris-Jumel Mansion. |
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Morris-Jumel Mansion |
New York City |
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| 1793/11/30 |
Washington meets with his cabinet (Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox and Edmund Randolph) in Isaac Franks' house four times between November 16 and 30, 1793. |
Secretary of War |
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Germantown 'White House' |
Philadelphia, PA |
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1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic |
| 1794/00/00 |
Henry Knox builds his mansion, Montpelier (razed), in Thomaston, Maine 1793-1794. |
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Thomaston Historic District |
Thomaston |
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| 1794/00/00 |
Henry Knox builds his mansion, Montpelier (razed), in Thomaston, Maine 1793-1794. |
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The General Henry Knox Museum |
Thomaston |
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