1750 Born to William
and Mary Campbell Knox. Henry is the seventh in family of ten.
1771 Opens the London Book Store on Cornhill in
1774 Secretly
marries Lucy Flucker, a daughter of a royalist.
Couple has 13 children over the years.
1775 Noble train of
artillery, a 300 mile winter haul of 55 cannon
from Ft. Ticonderoga back to
1776 Battle of
Trenton, moves army across the
1777 Winters
with Army at Valley Forge, Lucy
joins the encampment
1781 Siege
of Yorktown sets
the bombardment of the British lines
1783 Deputed
to receive the surrender of
1785 Appointed
by Congress then Washington as Secretary of War, holds position for 11 years
1795 Retires
to Montpelier a nineteen room
home on 576,000 acres in
1806 Dies
unexpectedly due to complications of peritonitis
General
Henry Knox Chapter of the