Fort Knox
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Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large porti
Fort Knox tank
Aerial view of the Bullion Depository. Godman Army Airfield can be seen in the background.
A tank driver at Fort Knox in 1942
Infantryman wearing Brodie helmet, kneeling in front of M3 Half-track, holds an M1 Garand rifle. Fort Knox, June 1942
Henry Knox
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Henry Knox was an American military officer, politician, bookseller, and a Founding Father of the United States. Knox, born in Boston, became a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolu
Fort Knox
…Meade counties. It currently holds the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence, including the Army Human Resources Command. It is named in honor of Henry Knox, Chief of Artillery in the American Revolutionary War and the first United States secretary of war. For 60 years, Fort Knox was the home of the U.S…
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1806
An ox team hauls cannon toward Boston as part of the 1775-76 "Noble train of artillery"
Men are visible behind Washington working to unload cannon in Thomas Sully's 1819 The Passage of the Delaware (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Steel engraving of Henry Knox by Alonzo Chappel