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Henry Knox was a 25-year-old bookseller with zero military experience. He dragged 60 cannons 480 kilometers through winter mountains to free Boston. This is how a bookshop owner ended an 11-month siege.
Apr 18, 2026
In January 1776, a British immigrant who had been in America for barely 14 months published a 47-page pamphlet that turned 'independence' from a radical whisper into a universal demand.
Apr 18, 2026
Joseph Warren was Boston's finest physician and a key leader of the independence movement. Given the rank of general, he chose to fight as a common soldier at Bunker Hill. He was 34 years old.
Apr 18, 2026
On July 3, 1775, George Washington arrived in Cambridge to take command of the Continental Army. What he found was not an army — it was chaos.
Apr 18, 2026
On June 17, 1775, 1,200 colonial militia held off 2,200 British regulars from trenches they had dug overnight. The British eventually won, but lost nearly half their force. A British general wrote: A few more such victories and we are done.
Apr 18, 2026
The shots fired at Lexington ripple south to Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Women organize supply lines, Gage begs London for reinforcements, and Benedict Arnold eyes Fort Ticonderoga.
Apr 18, 2026
Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys — 83 men — captured Fort Ticonderoga without firing a single shot. The 83 cannons they seized would later free Boston.
Apr 18, 2026
It took six weeks for the news of Lexington to cross the Atlantic. George III was furious. Parliament was divided. And on both sides of the ocean, the point of no return was approaching.
Apr 18, 2026
In the spring of 1775, thousands of colonists picked up their muskets and marched toward Boston. They were fighting, but most of them had no desire for independence. They just wanted their rights back.
Apr 18, 2026