Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History, 1802 West Point Graduates Its First Officers, Half of Them Jewish
Simeon Magruder Levy would distinguish himself in battle but, crippled by rheumatism, wound up resigning his commission by David B. Green on the Ha’aretz website on October 12, 2015.
West Point, as seen from Phillipstown, 1831: It was evidently quite the pastoral place back then. By William James Bennett (1787-1844).Library of Congress