Virtual Author Series featuring Phillip Hamilton

The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history.

In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucky Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy’s father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple joined the American cause after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and fled British-occupied Boston. Knox became a soldier in the Continental Army, where he served until the wars end as Washington’s artillery commander.

While Knox is well known to historians, his private life and marriage to Lucy remain largely unexplored. Phillip Hamilton tells the fascinating story of the Knoxes’ relationships amid the upheavals of war. Like John and Abigail Adams, the Knoxes were often separated by the revolution and spent much of their time writing to one another. They penned nearly 200 letters during the conflict, more than half of which are reproduced and annotated for this volume.

Phillip Hamilton is Professor of History at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. He is the author/editor of four books, including The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox, The Making and Unmaking of Revolutionary Family: the Tuckers of Virginia, 1752-1830, and Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue and Violence in the American War of Independence, which he co-edited with Glenn A. Moots. He grew up outside of New York City and attended Gettysburg College. He earned his doctorate in history from Washington University in St. Louis and has taught at Christopher Newport University since 2002. He is currently writing a biography of the Revolutionary War general, Henry Knox.

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