Guns for General Washington

By Seymour Reit

Subjects: United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, fiction, Brothers, Soldiers, fiction, Knox, henry, 1750-1806, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Soldiers

Description: In the bitter winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will, both of the Continental Army, become frustrated with the British blockade of Boston and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city.