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Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was an American military officer, politician, bookseller and a Founding Father of the United States. [1] He became a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, serving as chief of artillery in most of George Washington's campaigns.
Benjamin Lincoln and later Henry Knox held the position. When Washington was inaugurated as the first President under the Constitution, he appointed Knox to continue serving as Secretary of War. The secretary of war was the head of the War Department. At first, he was responsible for all military affairs, including naval affairs.
Shortly after the establishment of a government under President George Washington in 1789, Congress reestablished the War Department as a civilian agency to administer the field army under the president (as commander-in-chief) and the secretary of war. [5] Retired senior General Henry Knox, then in civilian life, served as the first United ...
Henry Knox, a Soldier of the Revolution: Major-general in the Continental Army, Washington's Chief of Artillery, First Secretary of War Under the Constitution, Founder of the Society of the Cincinnati; 1750–1806. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. OCLC 77547631. Brooks, Victor (1999). The Boston Campaign. Conshohocken, PA: Combined Publishing.
Washington sent a special emissary, Marinus Willett, to McGillvray and persuaded him to come to New York City, which was the U.S. capital, to conduct a treaty with Washington and Knox directly. In the summer of 1790, twenty-seven Muscogee leaders, led by McGillivray, traveled to New York and signed a treaty on behalf of the "Upper, Middle, and ...
With the formation of a Department of the Navy still several years away, responsibility for design and construction fell to the Department of War, headed by Secretary Henry Knox. As early as 1790 Knox had consulted various authorities regarding ship design. [32] Discussions of the designs were carried out in person at meetings in Philadelphia.
In January 1792, U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox authorized former General Edward Hand to contract with manufacturers for the rifles. [1] The rifles were to be delivered in units of 100 as quickly as possible. [1] He told Hand that the contract was for 500 rifles, but that he was willing to extend it to 1,000. [1]
During the mid and late 1780s, a cycle of violence in Indian-American relations and the continued resistance of Native nations threatened to deter American settlement of the contested territory, so John Cleves Symmes and Jonathan Dayton petitioned President Washington and Secretary of War Henry Knox to use military force to crush the Miami. [8]