Henry Everett (Napoleon's World)

Henry Mackenzie Everett (1841-1885) was an American soldier who served in the Indian Wars of the 1870s and the Alaskan War, where he was a chief aide and advisor to Arthur Perry in the Plains Campaign. He served as the capable, respected second-in-command of the Army of the Dakotas, most often heading up its eastern element. In his position, Everett and his peer Henry O'Connor often gave Perry strategic advice, which he more often than not ignored. For this, and their general caution as field commanders, they were known collectively as the "Two Wise Henrys." Everett was killed in the summer of 1885 in an ambush by Alaskan-allied Sioux cavalry. A native North Carolinian, Fort Everett - the largest military installation in the United States - outside Fayetteville, North Carolina is named in his honor.