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12 de ago. de 2023 · General Henry Knox was a close friend of George Washington’s, and the first Secretary of War. Knox quickly became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army. By the end of the war, he held the rank of a major general after participating in many major and critical battles.
28 de dic. de 2021 · Henry Knox, America’s First Secretary of War. Watch on. After the American Revolution, General Henry Knox resigned his army commission and served as Secretary of War from 1785 to 1795. Knox’s ten-year span in that office is longer than other Secretary of War/Defense in our nation’s history.
19 de mar. de 2024 · Role In: American Revolution. Battle of Monmouth. Siege of Yorktown. Henry Knox (born July 25, 1750, Boston, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died October 25, 1806, Thomaston, Maine, U.S.) was an American general in the American Revolution (1775–83) and the first secretary of war under the U.S. Constitution.
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First Senior Officer of the United States Army (1783 - 1784); Continental Congress's second Secretary of War (1785-1789); first United States Secretary of War (1789-1794)
The first official U.S. secretary of war, Knox spent his entire professional life engaged in military affairs. From 1768 to 1776, he involved himself with military organizations based near his home in Boston, including three years of service with the Boston Grenadier Corps (1773-1776).
On March 8, 1785, Knox took over the Secretary of War position in the Confederation government, succeeding Benjamin Lincoln. When the new government formed in 1789, Knox became the 1 st United States Secretary of War, a position he held through 1794.
Washington, at the start of his first administration, appointed Knox the nation's first Secretary of War, a position he held from 1789 to 1794. He is well known today as the namesake of Fort Knox in Kentucky, the repository of a large portion of the nation's gold reserves .
