Henry Knox

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Henry Knox

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Henry Knox

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Major General; Secretary at War (Confederation Congress); Secretary of War in Washington's Administration (1789-1794)

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Commanding General of the Army, December 1783 to June 1784; Elected by Congress as
Secretary at War, March 1785; Appointed Secretary of the War Department by Washington (September 1789 and served to December 1794)

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Henry

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Knox

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Issues of Supply & Initial Contacts with Indians Document
Report from Major General Anthony Wayne to Secretary of War Henry Knox from Camp Southwest Branch of Miami, six miles advanced of Fort Jefferson Document
Letter from Captain Constant Freeman to Secretary of War Henry Knox on renewed prospects for peace with the Creek Nation, inability to receive returns on militia numbers from Governor Telfair's, discrepencies in authorized militia strength and Federal authority to muster militia Document
Report on Indian Activity Document
Letter Citation Document
Present State of Indian Affairs Document
Letter Citation Document
Arrival of Letters; Guidance Requested Regarding Quarters for Officers' Families Document
Mr. Hamilton Was Taken with a Fever Document
Letter Citation Document
Hindering Seagrove's Peaceful Mission Document
Letter Citation Document
Hostility between Spain and Kentucky Document
French Privateer Taken into Port at North Carolina Document
Letter Citation Document
Status Report from Fort Pitt Document
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Sale of Bonds Receipt author Document
Letter Citation author Document
Letters will be Answered; Forward Information on Army; March of Lieutenant Whistler author Document
Yellow Fever epidemic and events abroad author Document
Whether Officers' Families Entitled to Quarters author Document
Prevention of French Aggression Against Spain author Document
Designs of Frenchmen to excite military enterprise against possessions of Spain author Document
Accounts for Protection of Virginia Frontier author Document
Letter Citation author Document