Editing West Point, New York (section)

=== Post-war ===
After the conclusion of the American Revolution, West Point was used as a storage facility for cannon and other military property used by the [[Continental Army]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875 |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=016/llsp016.db&recNum=51 |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=memory.loc.gov |archive-date=February 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223003510/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=016%2Fllsp016.db&recNum=51 |url-status=live}}</ref> and until November 28, 1779, was used as the temporary headquarters to George Washington, who called it "the most important Post in America" in 1781. Viewing a standing army as "dangerous", Congress demobilized American forces but left fewer than a hundred men at West Point.<ref name=":2" /> <!-- More specific information was originally here stating "For two months in 1784, the United States Army consisted of only about 80 soldiers under the command of Brevet Major John Doughty at West Point." However, this did not have a citation attached where the less specific information now in the article does, so the more specific version is omitted until a citation is found for it. -->However, it was still the largest post in the army in the immediate years after the Revolutionary War.<ref>Ambrose, pages 9–10.</ref>[[File:West Point, from Fort Putnam. (3990857882) crop.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|View of the West Point area from Fort Putnam, {{Circa|1865}}]]Favoring West Point due to its location and defenses, [[Henry Knox]] and [[Alexander Hamilton]] made the first official recommendation to establish a military academy at West Point in 1790. However, [[United States Congress|Congress]] rejected the proposal, although earlier in 1790, New York merchant and American Revolution patriot Stephen Moore sold his estate (known as "Moore's Folly") to the United States, following an Act of Congress that solidified the sale<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Miller |first=Agnes |date=1952 |title=Owner of West Point |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23153463 |journal=New York History |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=303–312 |jstor=23153463 |issn=0146-437X |access-date=February 18, 2023 |archive-date=February 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230218160721/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23153463 |url-status=live}}</ref> on September 10, 1790, for $11,085,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boynton |first=Edward Carlisle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GpU-AAAAYAAJ&q=west+point+ny&pg=PA5 |title=History of West Point: And Its Military Importance During the American Revolution: and the Origin and Progress of the United States Military Academy |date=1871 |publisher=D. Van Nostrand |language=en}}</ref> which meant Congress had gained full possession of the fort.<ref name=":2" /> The [[United States Military Academy]] was established at West Point in 1802.<ref>McDonald (2004), p. 184</ref><ref name="founding">Ambrose (1966), p. 22.</ref> It is the nation's oldest service academy,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wolf |first=Zachary |date=June 6, 2019 |title=West Point has an outsize importance in US history |work=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/politics/west-point-history/index.html |access-date=July 10, 2023 |archive-date=July 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711045238/https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/politics/west-point-history/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and is metonymically called "West Point" as well.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wire |first=S. I. |title=Army unveils new name, uniforms and logo in athletics rebrand |url=https://www.si.com/college-football/2015/04/13/army-football-new-uniforms-logo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401120741/https://www.si.com/college-football/2015/04/13/army-football-new-uniforms-logo |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |access-date=July 11, 2023 |website=SI.com}}</ref> West Point has the distinction of being the longest continuously occupied United States military installation.<ref name=":0" />