Knox hadn’t had any formal military training, but he’d read plenty, and had a knack for putting together fortifications.
When the British occupied the city in the wake of the first battles of the Revolutionary War in nearby Lexington and Concord, young Henry Knox snuck out through the lines to join the militia besieging the city. Military Engineering Skills Delivered Some of the First American Battlefield VictoriesĪ Boston bookseller was the unlikely first hero of American military engineering.
