... no experience as a soldier. Yet Knox proved to be one of the most ingenious and intrepid among Washington's force, bringing cannons from the captured Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York across many miles and in terrible weather to the battle at Boston. McCullough is not content to focus solely on the Americans, however. He writes evenhandedly about the British generals Howe ... American troops and the British troops found themselves, with winter setting in, on opposite sides of the Delaware River. Washington and others understood that time was crucial to their cause. Joseph Reed, Washi...

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