Colonel Henry Knox delivers to General George Washington, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 43 cannons and 15 mortars that were captured from Fort Ticonderoga, New York, to establish a blockade of Boston Harbor.

       [restored 7/3/2021]

Subsequent Events:

3/17/1776                   9/15/1776

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 19.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,161,621,015,445

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