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1802年3月16日是美国历史上一个值得纪念的日子。这一天,美国第三任总统托马斯·杰斐逊正式签署了第七届国会第一次会议通过的关于建立一所陆军军官学校的议案。同年7月4日,美国陆军军官学校在哈得孙河畔、距纽约市约80公里的军事要塞西点正式宣布成立.从此美国终于有了自己的第一所职业军官学校。对西点来说,两百年就是它的历史,几乎与美国历史一样悠久。两百年来,它一共培养了约五万名学员,其中包括两位合众国总统、四位五星上将、3700多名将军,以及一大批杰出的政治家、企业家、工程学家、科学家、教育家和艺术家等等。“责任、荣誉、国家”的校训,激励着一代又一代的西点人竭尽所能去报效祖国。
March 16, 1802 is a memorable day in American history. On this day, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, formally signed the resolution on establishing an army military school approved at the first session of the Seventh National Assembly. On the 4th of July of the same year, the U.S. Army Officer School was formally announced at West Point, a military fortress about 80 kilometers away from New York City, from the Hudson River, and finally the United States finally has its first school of vocational officers. For West Point, two hundred years is its history, almost as long as the history of the United States. For two hundred years, it has trained a total of about 50,000 students, including two presidents of the United States, four five-star generals, more than 3,700 generals, and a large group of distinguished politicians, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, education Home and artist and more. “Responsibility, honor, state ” motto, inspire generation after generation of West Point do everything we can to serve the motherland.