Moreover, each brigade included an artillery company to provide firepower when muskets inevitably grew wet, as they had during Montgomery’s attack at Quebec. Instead of the two or three field guns per thousand infantrymen typical in eighteenth-century armies, Washington would take nearly nine per thousand—massed artillery emboldened foot soldiers. Colonel Knox’s epic trek from Ticonderoga a year earlier had persuaded him that guns not only could keep pace with infantry regiments moving cross-country in foul weather but, in fact, could lead them without forfeiting mobility. Powder chests would
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