Henry Knox!
(watching The Revolution series on TV and I was reminded about him).
Book store owner, military groupy and artillery fanboy.
Boston is sieged. The Patriots need artillery. Ol’ Knox says “umm guys? Why don’t we get those guns sitting around at Fort Ticonderoga?”
He goes up there. Gets the guns. It takes him awhile but he gets those guns to Boston.
Washington gets a high point quickly fortified (like, overnight, surprising the crud out of the Brits) and the Brits say...
Hey, how about you let us walk out of here all peaceful like?
After the Brits are gone, Washington looks around at his staff and says “umm... any of y’all know where we might find some gunpowder for these here guns that Knox got for us?”
Would the siege of Boston been lifted without Henry Knox’s efforts?
The high point that Washington fortified was Dorchester Heights.