Congress on August 7, 1789, creates the…

July 1789 CE

Congress on August 7, 1789, creates the War Department as a civilian agency to administer the field army under the president (as commander in chief) and the secretary of war.

Retired senior General Henry Knox, now in civilian life, serves as the first United States Secretary of War

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