Henry Knox: The Most Unlikely Hero of the American Revolution

Fort Ticonderoga, located in northeastern New York, sits on a strategic peninsula at the confluence of Lake Champlain and Lake George, nestled between the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Green Mountains of Vermont. 

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In 1775, it was the gateway to Canada and controlled the vital strategic waterways of Lakes Champlain and George. An American expeditionary force of about 200 Continentals, led by the legendary Ethan Allen and 100 of his Green Mountain Boys, along with a Massachusetts colonel named Benedict Arnold, who commanded about 60 militiamen, snuck up on the fort just before dawn on May 10, 1775, and overwhelmed the 80 British soldiers guarding it without firing a shot.

It was America’s first victory of the Revolutionary War. Meanwhile, George