It’s a little bit unfair using this portrait to represent Henry Knox, because it was painted many years after his involvement in the Revolution, which began when Knox was 25 years old. As it turns out, this painting is from 1806, the year Knox died.

Henry Knox ran a bookstore in Boston as a young man, and he was on-hand for the carnage of the Boston Massacre in 1770. So by the time the war officially broke out, Knox was fully radicalized and ready for action. Because of his actions at Ticonderoga, he rose quickly through the ranks and became the Chief Artillery Officer of the Continental Army, and later the Secretary of War under George Washington, though at that point he was mostly dealing with Indian affairs.

Fort Knox in Kentucky is named after him, but we’re talking about the military installation, not the national depository which is practically next door.

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