What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.

A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.

They think they're better than us.

Who do you think you are?

I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.

She's punishing me.

You destroyed my family.

I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.

A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.

The year was 1775, Winter.

The Revolutionary War had begun.

British General William Howe and his troops were encamped in Boston.

In a few months, reinforcements would arrive, then he would finish off the annoying rebellion.

What American commander George Washington desperately needed was artillery.

With cannon, Washington could bombard the city before those reinforcements arrived and forced the British out.

But Washington had almost none.

The closest collection was 300 miles away in Fort Ticonderoga,

New York. Enter bookseller Henry Knox. He was all of 25, big and burly with a booming laugh to match his

size. He told Washington he could get him those Fort Ticonderoga cannons. It would take him a few weeks, maybe a month.

But he would get them and bring them back to Boston, guaranteed. Thus began one of the most

remarkable stories of the American War of Independence and the military exploits of one of that

war's most important figures. Knox's first task was to break the news to his pregnant wife, Lucy.

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