“The conflicts that happened on the way to Boston”

“This formative essay is about the two main conflicts that happened to William Knox, Henry Knox, and their men that happened in the story Guns for General Washington By Seymour Reit”


Do you know what actually happened in the Revolutionary war? In the book “Guns for General Washington”, Will and Henry Knox are on an expedition to deliver supplies from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston to help General Washington with the war. They face many hardships on the expedition. They must deliver the supplies safely, or they will lose the war. They also must worry about encountering the British and beating them at war. Although the war was important, the events leading up to it, such as delivering the supplies is also important.

First off William, Henry, and all the men that traveled with them had to face against the all the harsh weather, landscape and all the animals out in the dangerous mountain wilderness. In the book, It stated that there “Many black bear where they are traveling”, because of the Mountains that they will be heading across. William and their group of men had to create their own trails because the way they were going no one has gone through before. Another big problem that they had to face was that it was the beginning of winter so there was going to be snow. Especially when they are going to have to go through the mountains, there is snow along mountains all year long, because of the high altitude. It will just add more snow on the mountains, probably around 2 feet extra. This would have been extremely hard, when they were on horseback, taking 183 cannons and other supplies to General George Washington’s men in Boston.

Now the second conflict the two brothers and their men had to face was the British soldiers that were in their way. William and his brother Henry were tired of General Washington’s army, because they were so unorganized and they were extremely low on supplies. If the Redcoats were to find that they were on this mission to give General Washington his supplies they would have them killed or imprisoned. Henry Knox was a part of the Continental Army, and so was his younger 19 year old brother William. The British wouldn’t have just killed the men they would have also took all of the supplies that were going to General Washington. The British were a lot more sophisticated than the Continental Army were, they had good weapons, supplies that could fit a king, and outfits that were nice and sharp. On the other hand the Continental Army had Weapons but no ammunition and gun powder, barley no supplies, scarcely no outfits and a low amount of men. The British completely over power the Continental at this moment in time, but the Continental come back and win in the end.

In the end they all turned out fine, except for a small mess ups here and there, but otherwise William, Henry, and their men made it safely to Boston. They won the battle, and the Continental Army retook the city of Boston.