Colonial Michilimackinac and Fort Mackinac are offering immersive America 250 programs starting in May, with hands-on ...

This year’s commemoration of Henry Knox’s logistical feat, transporting cannon 300 miles from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston during the American Revolution, will look different from the one in which ...

HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - April 19, 1775. On this day, “the shot heard ‘round the world” initiated the American Revolutionary War. “We’re told today that nobody knows who fired the first shot,” ...

NOBLE TRAIN BEGINS BY THE NUMBERS $1,000 — Money granted to Col. Henry Knox by Gen. George Washington to begin his mission to Fort Ticonderoga in 1775. 60 — Reenactors expected at Fort Ticonderoga ...

Henry Knox was 25 years old when he led the “noble train of artillery” in the winter of 1775, moving 60 tons of cannons and armaments from the present day Adirondacks to Continental Army camps outside ...

An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...