March 1776 - The Fate of Boston

It's March 5th, 1776. American independence is 121 days away.    As the sun rises over the Boston harbor, where British warships float and thousands of red coat soldiers continue to occupy the town, the morning light begins to reveal a sight so impossible that the British commander General William Howe is left stunned.    Looking down from the hill above the harbor known as Dorchester Heights, a rise that had been all but barren when the sun set the night before, now somehow sits an entire new American fortification. Dozens of cannons and artillery pieces point down from the new fort, weapons that seemed to have materialized as if out of nowhere.    On a dramatic day that so happened to also mark the 5th anniversary since the Boston Massacre, Washington's Continental Army had managed to put the capstone on an epic journey that had begun almost a full year earlier with the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. And none of it would have been possible without the genius mind of an overweight Boston book seller named Henry Knox.   Our Penultimate episode of the show wraps up the 2 year long story in Boston with a tale of adventures, determination, and deciet that changes the whole direction of the Revolution.