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As a bookseller in Boston at the start of the Revolution, Knox was personally impacted by the rising British taxes. Later, he would steward the remarkable expedition to secretly transport arms from Fort Ticonderoga in New York up to Boston. Though some French newcomers pushed to take over Knox’s high military rank, he was such a quintessential Patriot hero that all of the Frenchmen’s efforts failed.
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Henry Knox Character Timeline in Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
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Pages 60-125
...this was when Phillipe Du Courdray, a high-status Frenchman, tried to unseat the American Henry Knox. Knox was a Boston bookseller whose business was gravely affected by the Intolerable Acts (a...
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Pages 126-190
...As Washington debated whether to attack Clinton in New Jersey, he leaned on Greene, Steuben, Knox and Lafayette as his most trusted military advisors.
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