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Henry Knox

major generalUnited StatesUnited States5 battles1 war

Lifespan

1750 – 1806

175017601770178017901800American Revolution · 1775–1783Boston campaign — April 19, 1775 · New England Colonies · American RevolutionSiege of Boston — April 19, 1775 · United Colonies · American RevolutionBattle of Long Island — August 27, 1776 · United States · American RevolutionPhiladelphia campaign — January 1, 1777 · United States · American RevolutionYorktown — Sep–Oct 1781 · United States · American Revolution

Active service 1775–1781 — 5 battles across 1 war; first command at age 25.

Profile

Henry Knox was an American military officer, politician, bookseller, and a Founding Father of the United States. Knox, born in Boston, became a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, serving as chief of artillery in all of George Washington's campaigns. Following the war, he oversaw the War Department under the Articles of Confederation from 1785 to 1789. Washington appointed him the nation's first secretary of war, a position which he held from 1789 to 1794. He is well known today as the eponym of Fort Knox in Kentucky, which is often conflated with the adjacent United States Bullion Depository.

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Battles (5)

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