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West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military state in the United States. Located upon the Hudson River in New York, General George Washington stationed his headquarters there in the summer and slip of 1779, and well along identified it as the most important strategic tilt in America during the American Revolution, calling it “the most important Post in America” in 1781. It was the site of General Benedict Arnold’s infamous treason. West Point was first occupied by the military upon January 27, 1778, when Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons and his brigade (comprising elements of the Connecticut militia) crossed the ice on the Hudson River and climbed to the plain on West Point. From next to the present, West Point has been occupied by the United States Army. It comprises approximately 16,000 acres (6,500 ha) including the campus of the United States Military Academy, which is commonly called “West Point” as well.

West Point is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Highlands in Orange County, located upon the western bank of the Hudson River. The population was 7,341 at the 2020 census. It is part of the New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA Metropolitan Statistical Area as competently as the larger New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT–PA Combined Statistical Area.

The site for West Point was originally picked because of the irregular S-curve in the Hudson River at that reduction during the American Revolutionary War, and was the subject of a committee reporting on fortifications in the Hudson River in November 1775, which first recommended occupying the land. Construction of the fort was begun under Captain Louis de la Radiere as chief engineer of the fort, however, New York Governor George Clinton thought that Radiere as “lacking” in the knowledge needed to preserve his position. Thus it was completed below Polish Colonel Tadeusz Kościuszko along with 1778–1780; it was a key defensive fortification, overlooking the perspective in the Hudson River and the Great Chain.

General George Washington watched the construction of the fort next door to and considered the fort to be General Alexander McDougall’s “first priority”.