[August]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I can never think of Fort Knox without remembering the hero it was named for. He did the impossible, transporting fifty cannon on sleds from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, a three-hundred-mile journey that took fifty-six days. Knox was made General of Artillery, and when Washington was President Knox was the first Secretary of War (today's Secretary of Defense).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Knox
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/knox.html

And that journey was accomplished by a guy who weight three hundred pounds!
http://www.earlyamerica.com/portraits/knox.html

And without any prior military experience either.