[DOC] [TLE] Henry Knox - Wikipedia [PAR] Henry Knox (July 25, 1750  October 25, 1806) was a military officer of the 
Continental Army and later the United States Army, who also served as the first 
United States Secretary of War from ..... Congress finally appointed Knox the 
nation's second Secretary at War on March 8, 1785, after considering a number 
of other... [DOC] [TLE] Winfield Scott - Wikipedia [PAR] Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786  May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general 
and .... From the War of 1812 until he became commanding general of the U.S. 
Army in ... as commander of Federal troops in the Cherokee Nation lands in 
Georgia. ..... Fort Scott, Kansas, a former Army outpost, was also named for him, 
as were... [DOC] [TLE] William Tecumseh Sherman - Wikipedia [PAR] William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator 
and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil 
War ... Sherman began his Civil War career serving in the First Battle of Bull Run 
and ... under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the battles of 
Forts... [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant - Wikipedia [PAR] Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States (186977). As 
Commanding General of the United States Army (186469), Grant ... Elected 
president in 1868 and reelected in 1872, Grant stabilized the nation during the .... 
Grant's first post-war assignments took him and Julia to Detroit and then to 
Sackets... [DOC] [TLE] Knoxville and Knox County - Tennessee History for Kids [PAR] Knoxville was the first capital of Tennessee, the home of the University of ... the 
Territory South of the Ohio River (also known as the Southwest Territory). ... 
Nations Melt Away and the 8th grade booklet Fire poured into our very faces. ... 
He renamed the town around the fort Knoxville, in honor of Secretary of War 
Henry Knox. [DOC] [TLE] Weekly Column July 6, 2011 - Supreme Court [PAR] Jul 6, 2011 ... Some of them are household names, their faces carved in stone and etched ... He 
doesn't often get mentioned with the heavyweights of our nation's founding, but in 
... colonials had the city surrounded, that Knox proposed an audacious plan ... 
Knox served in his cabinet as the nation's first Secretary of War,... [DOC] [TLE] Henry Knox - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] He served as the fledgling nation's first Secretary of War, from 1785, and ... and 
led the American forces into New York City as the British withdrew. ... forts, Fort 
Knox (Kentucky), and Fort Knox (Maine) were named after him. ... Knoxville, 
Tennessee, is also named for him. ... The General Henry Knox Museum, 
Montpelier. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 7: American Military History, Volume I [PAR] Jul 10, 2006 ... After the forced resignation of Secretary of War John Armstrong at the end of ... 
Congress also voted $838,000, by today's standards nearly $8 million, .... of the 
Corps of Engineers to build a fort, named Fort Gadsden, for storing the ... Regular 
Army and its officer corps was the first line of our nation's defense. [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant - Civil War Trust [PAR] Civil War Trust's biography of Union Civil War General-in-Chief Ulysses S. ... His 
1862 triumphs at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in western Tennessee ... the 
Battle of Shiloh yielded devastating casualties during the first day's fighting, ... 
Johnson named Grant Secretary of War over the newly reunited nation. .... Our 
Sponsors. [DOC] [TLE] REPUBLIC OF TEXAS | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State ... [PAR] Jun 15, 2010 ... With Sam Houston elected as general of the Texas Army, Austin was sent ... 
Jackson in Tennessee, presented a resolution calling for independence. .... On 
June 25 Burnet appointed as secretary of war Mirabeau B. Lamar, a major 
general, ... The ad interim president called an election for the first Monday in... [DOC] [TLE] Andrew Johnson - U.S. Presidents -

Question: A fort & a Tennessee city are named for this general who was also our nation's first Secretary of War
Answer: (Henry) Knox