Dorchester Heights Monument - Boston National Historical Park

The Dorchester Heights Monument guide follows Henry Knox, a Boston bookseller who set off for Fort Ticonderoga in November 1775 to haul dozens of captured British cannons back across frozen rivers and Berkshire snow, a trip he guessed would take sixteen days. It picks up months later, on the night of March 4, 1776, when over a thousand soldiers hauled those guns up this hill in near silence to fortify it by dawn, muffling their carts with straw as they climbed.