He died in 1806 at his estate in Thomaston, Maine, after choking on a chicken bone.
He died in 1806 at his estate in Thomaston, Maine, after choking on a chicken bone. In the winter of 1775, he brought sixty pieces of artillery 300 miles from Ticonderoga to Boston, and he founded the Academy Military School, the precursor to West Point, before becoming commendant of West Point in 1782. FTP, name this man, who also founded the Society of the Cincinnati and succeeded Washington as commander in chief, who in 1789 became the first Secretary of War.
He died in 1806 at his estate in Thomaston, Maine, after choking on a chicken bone.
Henry Knox