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"West Point" Gallery

Beginning with the garrisoning of West Point during the Revolutionary War, the displays chronicle West Point and the United States Military Academy. Exhibited artifacts range from the sword of Polish patriot Thaddeus Kosciuszko, who engineered some of West Point's early fortifications, to the modern cadet uniform. Famous graduates such as Sylvanus Thayer, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, John J. Pershing, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Omar Bradley are featured in the exhibits.

West Point Gallery
Cadet George S. Patton Howitzer portrait Photo	From Fort Putnam, West Point Looking Down the River By Alexander Robertson, 29 August 1796	View of West Point from Fort Putnam, Unknown Artist, circa 1855	Major Thayer And Staff By Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer, 1943
Robert E. Lee Attributed to A. Louvrie, c. 1870 depicts Lee in the uniform of a USMA professor	Cadet uniform, 1816	Sword and Scabbard of General Thaddeus Kosciuszko	Thaddeus Kosciuszko (1756-1817) Engraving by Henry Bryan Hall, circa 1855

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