Two-hundred fifty years after a 25-year-old Boston bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons up and over the Berkshire Hills in the dead of winter, one question still intrigues historians: Exactly which way did he go?

Under orders from Gen. George Washington, Knox and his crew delivered the 60 tons of artillery 300 miles, from Fort Ticonderoga at the southern end of Lake Champlain to the outskirts of Boston, in just 56 days.

The artillery was exactly what Washington, commander of the newly formed Continental Army, needed to drive British forces out of Boston — a pivotal success early in the war for American independence.

Knox’s delivery is made even more astonishing when one considers he and his men made the journey on foot, by directing dozens of draft horses and oxen pulling cann

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