http://spotstory.com/tags/spots/revolutionary+war spotstory: stories and photos of your favorite places en-us http://spotstory.com/spots/show/57 http://spotstory.com/spots/show/57 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:27:46 +0000 42.3673 -71.1874 revolutionary war <img alt="149_preview" src="http://spotstory.com/image_files/00/00/149_preview.jpg?1174530685" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" />This stone tablet celebrates General George Washington passing through Watertown on the early afternoon of July 2nd, 1775. He would assume command of the Continental Army&nbsp;the&nbsp;following day in Cambridge, but not before enjoying some rum punch at a local Watertown Tavern, after being briefed on the state of his new rag-tag army by the Provincial Congress.&nbsp;&nbsp; http://spotstory.com/spots/show/58 http://spotstory.com/spots/show/58 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:57:25 +0000 42.3709 -71.1637 revolutionary war <img alt="151_preview" src="http://spotstory.com/image_files/00/00/151_preview.jpg?1174532407" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" />It was one of the greatest engineering feats in military history. They all laughed at portly Henry Knox, aged 25, when he suggested that he could pull all 60 of the cannons, howitzers and mortars from Fort Ticonderoga at the southern tip of Lake Champlain and drag them by sledge and oxen 300 miles back to Boston, to be placed on Dorchester Heights so as&nbsp;to pour a fusillade down onto the British fleet anchored in Boston Harbor. All of the generals scoffed - except George Washington, who...