27 January 1776 – Henry Knox’s “noble train of artillery” arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 25 January, although Henry Knox personally reported the arrival to General Washington two days later, on the 27th. The Knox Expedition, was an expedition led by a 25 year old Continental Army Colonel and former Boston bookseller, Henry Knox, to transport heavy weaponry that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army camps outside Boston, Massachusetts during the winter of 1775–1776.
Knox went to Ticonderoga - which had been captured by Ethan Allen and his, "Green Mountain Boys" that May - in November 1775, and, over the course of 3 winter months, moved 60 tons of cannons and other armaments by boat, horse and ox-drawn sledges, and manpower, along poor-quality roads, across two semi-frozen rivers, and through the forests and swamps of the lightly inhabited Berkshires to the Boston area.
Historian Victor Brooks has called Knox’s exploit “one of the most stupendous feats of logistics” of the entire American War of Independence. The route by which Knox moved the weaponry is now known as the Henry Knox Trail, and the states of New York and Massachusetts have erected markers along the route.
The cannon where placed at Lechmere's Point, Cobble Hill in Cambridge and Lamb's Dam in Roxbury and preperations were made to fortify Dorchester Heights, from where they could threaten both the city and the British fleet in Boston Harbor. The canon were instrumental in the British decision to abandon Boston in March of that year.
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