Can America's National Resilience Long Endure?

In the autumn of 1775, as George Washington's volunteers laid siege to Boston, a local bookshop owner-turned-citizen-soldier named Henry Knox proposed a daring plan: Take a small force to the French-owned Fort Ticonderoga, steal its 59 cannons, position them on the Dorchester Heights, and drive the 11,000 British troops from the city.