![]() ![]() MacArthur commenced his professional military career as a Second Lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers, serving for a time in the Philippines. In June 1899 he entered West Point Military Academy and graduated as valedictorian in 1903. When Douglas was thirteen the family moved to San Antonio in Texas where he attended an Episcopalian school and later the West Texas Military Academy. MacArthur spent his early childhood in New Mexico where his father commanded an infantry company protecting 'settlers and railroad workers from the Indian menace', 1 before moving back to 'civilisation' (in the words of his mother) first to Kansas, then to Washington DC where his father took a post in the Defence Department. Douglas MacArthur was born on 26 January 1880 in Little Rock Arkansas, one of three sons of Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, a recipient of the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War, and Mary Pinkney Hardy from Norfolk in Virginia. ![]()
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