"The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us." This self-taught man was America's first Secretary of War.

Secretary of War is no longer a position (Secretary of Defense took its place), but the country's first Secretary of War was Henry Knox. Appointed by Washington, Knox worked his way from bookworm to Chief Artillery Officer in the war all the way up to the new nation's Secretary of War.

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