Note 112 — Chapter VIII · The Siege of Boston.
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“Knox was one of those providential characters which spring up in emergencies, as if they were formed by and for the occasion. A thriving bookseller in Boston, he had thrown up business, to take up arms for the liberties of his country. He was one of the patriots who fought on Bunker Hill; since when, he had aided in planning the defences of the camp before Boston.”—Irving’s Life of Washington, vol. i. p. 190.