ext_137533 ([identity profile] z-gryphon.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] bluegargantua 2008-07-08 04:20 pm (UTC)

Don't forget Major General Henry "Ox" Knox, a professional artillerist who masterminded the breaking of the siege of Boston and the crossing of the Delaware, and went on to be President Washington's secretary of war. He's the namesake of not one but two Forts Knox and, I'm pleased to say, made Maine his home after the revolution. I suppose it could be argued that he wasn't one of the prime movers of the political end of the revolution and, as such, may not count as a "founding father", but history has shown that he was ahead of the curve in at least one area, having envisioned and tried to implement a more decent and humane policy of Indian relations more than a hundred years before anyone else would even consider it.

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