Henry Knox and trekking on the Knox Trail

Henry Knox and trekking on the Knox Trail

Henry Knox was a feisty bookseller born and raised in Boston who became an accomplished general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He first organized and orchestrated his legendary “Noble Train of Artillery” on a miraculous mission from Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y., through the Berkshires, and on to Boston. General Henry Knox engraving by H. W. Smith from a painting by Edward Savage. Courtesy of the Great Barrington Histori…