The Revolutionary War Lives & Letters of Lucy & Henry Knox with Phillip Hamilton
Revolution 250 Podcast
English - February 20, 2024 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHistory american revolution boston massachusetts new england Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Henry Knox, Boston book-seller and emerging patriot, in 1774 married Lucy Flucker, daughter of the Provincial Secretary and leading loyalist. Lucy's family would leave with the loyalist evacuation in March 1776, forced out by the cannon Henry brought from Ticonderoga. Lucy would never see them again. She and Henry would exchange more than 500 letters over the course of their married life, letters which Philip Hamilton has used for this window into the Revolutionary world. The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox are from the war--Henry would be with the army from the siege of Boston through Yorktown, and he and Lucy, young, bright, and in love, shared it all.