Henry Knox

Knox Brings Cannon and Victory to General Washington

Edwin S. Grosvenor | Fall 2025

Setting out 250 years ago this month, Henry Knox’s “Noble Train” carried 60 tons of desperately needed artillery to help patriots oust British forces from Boston.

See our slideshow for more photographs of the current reenactment of the Knox expedition.

Big Guns For Washington

Clay Perry | April 1955

How tough Henry Knox hauled a train of cannon over wintry trails to help drive the British away from Boston

A “New And Strange Order Of Men”

Edwin A. Hoey | August 1968

Just what moved those Revolutionary War officers to form the Society of the Cincinnati, America’s first veterans’ organization? Some said it was treason

“Lady” Knox

Diana Forbes-Robertson | April 1966

George Washington had his Martha; John Adams had his Abigail—and Henry Knox had his Lucy. Or did Lucy have him? She was high-strung, demanding, and stubborn, but she loved him unto death

One moonless spring night in 1775 a young couple crept quietly out of their house on Cornhill in Boston and ran for a waiting carriage. It bore them away through dark streets toward Boston Neck.

Soldier in a Longboat

George A. Billias | February 1960

Three times John Glover’s Marblehead fishermen saved Washington’s army; in a final battle, the “amphibious regiment” rowed him to victory across the Delaware

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