Noble train of artillery

Noble train of artillery

An ox team hauling Ticonderoga's guns
Date	November 17, 1775 (1775-11-17) – January 25, 1776 (1776-01-25) (70 days)
Location	British provinces of New York and Massachusetts Bay
Participants	Colonel Henry Knox
Outcome	Fortification of Dorchester Heights

The noble train of artillery, also known as the Knox Expedition, was an expedition led by Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox to transport heavy weaponry that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army camps outside Boston during the winter of 1775–76.

Knox went to Ticonderoga in November 1775 and moved 60 tons^[1] of cannon and other armaments over the course of three winter months by boat, horse, ox-drawn sledges, and manpower along poor-quality roads, across two semi-frozen rivers, and through the forests and swamps of the lightly inhabited Berkshires to the Boston area,^[2][3] covering approximately 300 miles (500 km). Historian Victor Brooks has called Knox's exploit "one of the most stupendous feats of logistics" of the entire American Revolutionary War.^[4] The route which he followed is now known as the Henry Knox Trail, and the states of New York and Massachusetts have erected markers along the way.