tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1399354799329437468..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Henry Knox’s Thank-You LetterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-52793566668894254582013-02-10T20:59:58.776-05:002013-02-10T20:59:58.776-05:00I wrote about the source and implausibility of the...I wrote about the source and implausibility of the Knox and Revere story <a href="http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2012/07/henry-knox-and-paul-revere-pretending.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />I think Knox’s marriage to Lucy Flucker did indeed put pressure on him not to espouse strong Whig views. I also think it even offered good prospects if he joined the royalist side. Not necessarily as good as some legends say (I think a commission in the king’s army would have been unlikely), but enough that Knox gave up a secure future when he joined the provincial forces.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-15143499490975875212013-02-10T20:35:22.578-05:002013-02-10T20:35:22.578-05:00Knox walking that hazy middle ground in pre-1775 t...Knox walking that hazy middle ground in pre-1775 times was partly also because I assume 1.) He was married to a Flucker, and 2.) I'd heard many of his London book-shop customers were indeed Loyalists and British officers. I'd also heard that in exchanging Committee of Correspondence intel, Revere would feign to get into a verbal fight with Knox inside the store and storm out. Any truth to that, that you know of Mr. Bell?John L Smith Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04209064146960498237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-66411624338049862922013-02-10T17:48:46.867-05:002013-02-10T17:48:46.867-05:00I did wonder about that. Some of the older physici...I did wonder about that. Some of the older physicians in Boston had experience as military surgeons, however. The royal military units in Boston in 1774 hadn’t been in a war for over a decade, so I’m not sure how much more experienced their surgeons were. (I tried to find out more about these two particular doctors, but didn’t.) J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-85814090024586852662013-02-10T13:52:55.839-05:002013-02-10T13:52:55.839-05:00I wonder - could Knox's choice of physician al...I wonder - could Knox's choice of physician also have been based on the idea (rightly or wrongly) that military doctors might have a better understanding of how to deal with this sort of wound? Were civilian doctors able to handle such a complex injury? Perhaps the answer to that question goes back to just how common gun accidents were at the time...<br /><br />R. DoctorowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com