General Henry Knox Memorial - Bolton Landings, NY - U.S. Revolutionary War Memorials on Waymarking.com

Close to the new dock in Bolton Landings is this memorial to Gen. Henry Knox.

He passed through this place with the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston.

"... Reaching Ticonderoga on December 5, Knox commenced what came to be known as the noble train of artillery, hauling by ox-drawn sled 60 tons of cannons and other armaments across some 300 miles (480 km) of ice-covered rivers and snow-draped Berkshire Mountains to the Boston siege camps.

The region was lightly populated and Knox had to overcome difficulties hiring personnel and draft animals. On several occasions cannons crashed through the ice on river crossings, but the detail's men were always able to recover them. In the end, what Knox had expected to take just two weeks actually took more than six, and he was finally able to report the arrival of the weapons train to Washington on January 27, 1776.

Called by historian Victor Brooks "one of the most stupendous feats of logistics" of the entire war,Knox's effort is commemorated by a series of plaques marking the Henry Knox Trail in New York and Massachusetts." source : (visit link)

Type of Memorial: Plaque

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