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West Point

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West Point, U.S. military post, since 1802 seat of the United States Military Academy United States Military Academy, at West Point , N.Y.; for training young men and women to be officers in the U.S. army; founded and opened in 1802. The original act provided that the Corps of Engineers stationed at West Point should constitute a military academy, but
..... Click the link for more information. . On the high west bank of the Hudson River N of New York City, West Point was the site of Revolutionary forts guarding the Hudson. Constitution Island, in the river, is also in the reservation. The plan of Benedict Arnold Arnold, Benedict, 1741–1801, American Revolutionary general and traitor, b. Norwich, Conn. As a youth he served for a time in the colonial militia in the French and Indian Wars . He later became a prosperous trader.
..... Click the link for more information.  to surrender (1780) West Point to the British was discovered with the capture of Major John André.
West Point
U.S. Military Academy focusing on discipline as part of training. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 729]
See : Discipline
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Any glamour which may have attached to cadet life in Poe's eyes was speedily lost, for discipline at West Point was never so severe nor were the accommodations ever so poor.
An Appreciation by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
One of my deepest secrets was my West Point -- my military academy.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
By-and-by she will know the art like a West Point cadet, and will exercise it as fearlessly.
A Horse's Tale by Twain, Mark View in context
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