A bookseller makes history. To break the siege of Boston, Henry Knox leads a transport of captured British cannon from Fort Ticonderoga across more than 300 miles of snow and ice. And if Washington can get those guns up onto the heights undetected, the British will be at his mercy. 1776 is a week by week narrative of the most iconic year of America’s founding. This short-form historical series reexamines the American Revolution at a time when the idea of independence was far from inevitable.