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When young Ben Combination escapes occupied Boston in 1775, he does not have any idea that he will turn into a cannoneer of the First Artillery Device of the Continental Military under Colonel Henry Knox, nor that he would be in the company of the Green Mtn. Regiment of Ethan Allen and the challenging Vermonters. Now could he have imagined dining with General George Washington himself, or assisting to equip the Continental Military. But it takes a gargantuan effort that involves a 600 mile round-trip over a few of the roughest hill amounts, the Adirondacks and the Berkshires, to haul 73 cannons, most 24-pounders, via oxen teach over iced over waterways in deceased of winter through areas where no streets exist until the American troops build them ahead of the artillery teach. Col. Knox, a bookseller in Boston at that time that battle broke out, was mostly of the men who possessed trained on artillery with the British, and using is own money, he financed the movements of the captured cannons of Fort Ticonderoga from the Upper Tier region of north New York to Boston. Ben, a 17-year-old son, fast becomes a man when confronted with responsibility, sabotage, and the court martial of Henry Knox as a spy.
