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Fort Ticonderoga
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| 95) details the extraordinary task of moving cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester heights near Boston for an important American victory early in the war. Trumbull helped to organize the successful assault on Fort Ticonderoga by Vermont's "Green Mountain Boys" and sent 1,000 soldiers to garrison the fort after Ethan Allen took it. In 1775, Knox became a colonel in charge of the Continental Artillery and began his brilliant expedition to capture 59 cannons and mortars from Fort Ticonderoga and bring them 300 miles in the snow to General George Washington's headquarters at Cambridge. |
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