“We shall cut no small figure through the country with our cannon.”

—  Henry Knox

Knox to his wife, on the difficulties of dragging Cannon. Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 83.

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Continental Army and US Army general, US Secretary of War 1750–1806

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