what military school did poe attend?
United States Military Academy
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 This time on the frontier ended in July 1889 when the family moved to Washington , D.C. , where Douglas attended the Force Public School . His father was posted to San Antonio , Texas , in September 1893 . While there MacArthur attended the West Texas Military Academy , where he was awarded the gold medal for " scholarship and deportment " . He also participated on the school tennis team , and played quarterback on the school football team and shortstop on its baseball team . He was named valedictorian , with a final year average of 97 @.@ 33 out of 100 . MacArthur 's father and grandfather unsuccessfully sought to secure Douglas a presidential appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point , first from President Grover Cleveland and then from President William McKinley . After these two rejections , he passed an examination for an appointment from Congressman Theobald Otjen , scoring 93 @.@ 3 on the test . He later wrote : " It was a lesson I never forgot . Preparedness is the key to success and victory . " 

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 Poe traveled to West Point and matriculated as a cadet on July 1 , 1830 . In October 1830 , John Allan married his second wife Louisa Patterson . The marriage and bitter quarrels with Poe over the children born to Allan out of affairs led to the foster father finally disowning Poe . Poe decided to leave West Point by purposely getting court @-@ martialed . On February 8 , 1831 , he was tried for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders for refusing to attend formations , classes , or church . Poe tactically pleaded not guilty to induce dismissal , knowing that he would be found guilty . 

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 MacArthur entered West Point on 13 June 1899 , and his mother also moved there to a suite at Craney 's Hotel , overlooking the grounds of the Academy . Hazing was widespread at West Point at this time , and MacArthur and his classmate Ulysses S. Grant III were singled out for special attention by southern cadets as sons of generals with mothers living at Craney 's . When Cadet Oscar Booz left West Point after being hazed and subsequently died of tuberculosis , there was a congressional inquiry . MacArthur was called to appear before a special Congressional committee in 1901 , where he testified against cadets implicated in hazing , but downplayed his own hazing even though the other cadets gave the full story to the committee . Congress subsequently outlawed acts " of a harassing , tyrannical , abusive , shameful , insulting or humiliating nature " , although hazing continued . MacArthur was a corporal in Company B in his second year , a first sergeant in Company A in his third year and First Captain in his final year . He played left field for the baseball team , and academically earned 2424 @.@ 12 merits out of a possible 2470 @.@ 00 or 98 @.@ 14 , the third highest score ever recorded , graduating first in his 93 @-@ man class on 11 June 1903 . At the time it was customary for the top @-@ ranking cadets to be commissioned into the United States Army Corps of Engineers , so MacArthur was commissioned as a second lieutenant in that corps . 

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 Poe was unable to support himself , so he enlisted in the United States Army as a private on May 27 , 1827 using the name " Edgar A. Perry " . He claimed that he was 22 years old even though he was 18 . He first served at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor for five dollars a month . That same year , he released his first book , a 40 @-@ page collection of poetry entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems , attributed with the byline " by a Bostonian " . Only 50 copies were printed , and the book received virtually no attention . Poe 's regiment was posted to Fort Moultrie in Charleston , South Carolina and traveled by ship on the brig Waltham on November 8 , 1827 . Poe was promoted to " artificer " , an enlisted tradesman who prepared shells for artillery , and had his monthly pay doubled . He served for two years and attained the rank of Sergeant Major for Artillery ( the highest rank that a noncommissioned officer could achieve ) ; he then sought to end his five @-@ year enlistment early . He revealed his real name and his circumstances to his commanding officer Lieutenant Howard . Howard would only allow Poe to be discharged if he reconciled with John Allan and wrote a letter to Allan , who was unsympathetic . Several months passed and pleas to Allan were ignored ; Allan may not have written to Poe even to make him aware of his foster mother 's illness . Frances Allan died on February 28 , 1829 , and Poe visited the day after her burial . Perhaps softened by his wife 's death , John Allan agreed to support Poe 's attempt to be discharged in order to receive an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point . 

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 The Allan family had Poe baptized in the Episcopal Church in 1812 . John Allan alternately spoiled and aggressively disciplined his foster son . The family sailed to Britain in 1815 , and Poe attended the grammar school for a short period in Irvine , Scotland ( where John Allan was born ) before rejoining the family in London in 1816 . There he studied at a boarding school in Chelsea until summer 1817 . He was subsequently entered at the Reverend John Bransby 's Manor House School at Stoke Newington , then a suburb 4 miles ( 6 @.@ 4 km ) north of London . 
