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Henry Knox

First U.S. Secretary of War, 1789 to 1794.

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  1. 1790 Henry Knox intervened in U.S. wars and massacres against Indian nations, 1776 to 1890
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  1. Genocide and American Indian History, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2 Mar 2015. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    In 1790 Secretary of War Henry Knox sanctioned such a war when he ordered the U.S. Army to “extirpate, utterly, if possible” a confederacy of Indians centered in Ohio that had rejected U.S. demands for a land cession.
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