Mass. event honors 250th anniversary of key moment in American Revolution

A re-enactment of a key moment in Massachusetts history kicked off in the western part of the state today, near the New York border.

It’s part of the 250th anniversary of Henry Knox’s 1776 “Noble Train of Artillery” — one of the more extraordinary achievements of the American Revolution that helped turn the tide of the war.

Knox, who was a colonel in the continental army, engineered the transport of heavy weaponry from New York to Boston…

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