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The Continental Army first occupied West Point, New York, on 27 January 1778, [11] and it is the oldest continuously operating Army post in the United States. [12] Between 1778 and 1780, the Polish engineer and military hero Tadeusz Kościuszko oversaw the construction of the garrison defenses. [13]
Alma Cooper is the 1st Afro-Latina Miss USA — and a U.S. Army officer, West Point grad and data scientist. Becca Wood. September 24, 2024 at 8:40 PM.
Robert E. Lee. Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Northern Virginia —the Confederacy's most powerful army—from 1862 until its surrender in ...
The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York, that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army during the American Civil War. This list is drawn from alumni of the Military Academy who served as general officers in the Union Army (US Army). This includes William Tecumseh Sherman ...
v. t. e. The military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower began in June 1911, when Eisenhower took the oath as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from West Point and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army in June 1915, as part of "the class the stars fell on".
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...
Henry H. Arnold. Henry Harley " Hap " Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and later, General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938–1941), commanding general of the United States Army Air Forces, the only United States Air ...
Of the approximately 900 West Point graduates who were then civilians, 400 returned to the U.S. Army and 99 to the Confederacy. The ratio of U.S. Army to Confederate professional officers was 642 to 283. [7] One of the resigning officers was Robert E. Lee, who initially was offered the assignment as commander of a field army to suppress the ...