General Henry Knox - Creator of the Pluckemin Artillery Encampment and the First Military Training Facility for the newly created United States of America.

 

General Henry Knox seemed to have been everywhere in the Revolution from the Boston Massacre to the British surrender at Yorktown. Best known for his heroic winter trek to Boston with artillery from Ticonderoga, Knox served with distinction in every major engagement of the war and later became Secretary of War.

General Knox is also remembered as the first commander of West Point and as the namesake of Fort Knox. Before the war, Knox was a bookseller in Boston, but was involved with the cause for American independence from the beginning of the Revolution in 1775. It was then that Knox met Washington who admired Knox's knowledge of artillery, and came to rely on him in all matters regarding that field of the military.

 

 

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