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Also Known As West Point Academy
Date March 16, 1802 - present
Areas Of Involvement higher education
Notable Alumni Red Blaik • John J. Pershing • Cyrus B. Comstock • Geoffrey Keyes • Frank Borman • Fitz-John Porter • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Robert E. Lee • George Patton • George Armstrong Custer • Harold K. Johnson • Stonewall Jackson • William Westmoreland • Timothy Leary • Lloyd Austin • Stanley McChrystal • John J. Mearsheimer • Jubal A. Early • Hun Manet • Creighton Williams Abrams, Jr. • Mike Krzyzewski • Anne McClain • Buzz Aldrin • Michael Collins • Jack Reed • Frank Rubio • Norman Schwarzkopf • David Scott • Omar Bradley • Maxwell Davenport Taylor • Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. • Matthew Bunker Ridgway • Carl Spaatz • Henry W. Halleck • Ambrose Everett Burnside • E. Kirby-Smith • George Edward Pickett • Al Worden • Jonathan M. Wainwright • James B. McPherson • Andrew Summers Rowan
Related People Bertram G. Goodhue • Red Blaik

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West Point in the 1780s.In 1795 George Washington called for a national academy to train military officers. West Point, a military fortress during the American Revolution, was the site chosen.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower as a U.S. Military Academy graduate
Cadets on parade at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
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