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Macomb, Alexander

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Macomb, Alexander (1782-1841)

US soldier. He received a regular army commission in 1799, and then became one of the first to train at West Point and was promoted to the rank of captain after graduation. He served with the Corps of Engineers (1805-12), working on coast fortifications in the Carolinas and Georgia. In 1814 he defeated a larger British force at Plattsburg, New York. By 1821 he was head of the Corps of Engineers and he became commanding general of the entire US Army from 1828-41. The son of a prosperous trader, Macomb was born in Detroit, Michigan.
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