Henry Knox
American
American Revolutionary War hero - AsNotedIn
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- Daughter: Lucy Flucker Knox
American Revolutionary War hero - AsNotedIn
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Significant name | John Chapman House | New Hope | |||||
Significant name | Knox Headquarters | New Windsor, NY | |||||
Significant name | Plukemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site | Washington Camp Ground | |||||
Significant name | Jacobus Vanderveer House | Pluckemin | |||||
1770/03/05 | British Regulars shoot American colonist, killing five and injuring six, in front of the old State House | Witness | Old State House | Boston | Boston Massacre | ||
1770/03/05 | British Regulars shoot American colonist, killing five and injuring six, in front of the old State House | Witness | Old State House | Boston | American Revolution - From Protest to Revolt | ||
1775/06/17 | American colonists battle British regular military forces. | American Commander | Bunker Hill Monument | Boston | Battle of Bunker Hill | ||
1775/06/17 | American colonists battle British regular military forces. | American Commander | Bunker Hill Monument | Boston | 1775 American Revolution - The War Begins | ||
1775/11/00 | George Washington consults Henry Knox on where to obtain artillery | Expedition Leader | Noble Train of Artillery | ||||
1775/12/00 | Henry Knox arrives at Fort Ticonderoga to acquire cannons to used in the siege of Boston. | Expedition Leader | Fort Ticonderoga | Ticonderoga | 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. | Expedition Leader | Lake George Battlefield Park Historic District | Lake George | Noble Train of Artillery | ||
1776/01/00 | Knox Expedition drag cannons from Fort Ticonderoga in New York through Roxbury to Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Expedition Leader | John Eliot Square District, Roxbury | Boston | Noble Train of Artillery | ||
1776/01/25 | After a 300 mile journey, Teamsters with eighty yoke of oxen deliver 59 cannon to the colonial army encircling Boston. | Expedition Leader | Dorchester Heights National Historic Site | Boston | Noble Train of Artillery | ||
1777/09/11 | American Revolution Battle between the troops of George Washington and the British troops of William Howe. | American Commander | Brandywine Battlefield | Chadds Ford | 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." | Board of Inquiry | 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." | American Commander | Fraunces Tavern | New York City | 1781 American Revolution - After Yorktown | ||
1790/00/00 | Secretary of War Henry Knox approves Oliver Evans patent for an Automatic Flour Mill. | Government Official | 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. | Visitor | Morris-Jumel Mansion | New York City | |||
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 | Germantown 'White House' | Philadelphia, PA | 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic | ||
1794/00/00 | Henry Knox builds his mansion, Montpelier (razed), in Thomaston, Maine 1793-1794. | Home | Thomaston Historic District | Thomaston | |||
1794/00/00 | Henry Knox builds his mansion, Montpelier (razed), in Thomaston, Maine 1793-1794. | Home | The General Henry Knox Museum | Thomaston |
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