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(1742–86). Nathanael Greene was a general in the American Revolution. Because of his brilliant wartime strategy, he was called “the man who saved the South” from the British. Nathanael Greene was born in Potowomut (Warwick), R.I., on August 7, 1742.
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Greene was born on August 7, 1742 [O.S.], on Forge Farm at Potowomut in the township of Warwick, Rhode Island, which was then part of British America. He was the second son of Mary Mott and Nathanael Greene Sr., a prosperous Quaker merchant and farmer. Greene was descended from John Greene and Samuel Gorton, both of whom were founding settlers of W...
In July 1774, Greene married the nineteen-year-old Catharine Littlefield, a niece-by-marriage of his distant cousin, William Greene, an influential political leader in Rhode Island. That same year, one of Greene's younger brothers married a daughter of Samuel Ward, a prominent Rhode Island politician who became an important political ally until his...
Prelude to war
After the French and Indian War (1754–1763), the British parliament began imposing new policies designed to raise revenue from British America for a war that colonists had played a pivotal role in instigating. After British official William Dudington seized a vessel owned by Greene and his brothers, Greene filed an ultimately successful lawsuit against Dudington for damages. While the lawsuit was pending, Dudington's vessel was torched by a Rhode Island mob in what became known as the Gaspee...
After resigning his commission, Greene returned to Newport. Facing a large amount of debt, he relocated to the South to focus on the slave plantations he had been awarded during the war, and he made his home at the Mulberry Grove Plantation outside of Savannah. In 1784, Greene declined appointment to a commission tasked with negotiating treaties wi...
Historical reputation
Defense analyst Robert Killebrew writes that Greene was "regarded by peers and historians as the second-best American general" in the Revolutionary War, after Washington. The historian Russell Weigley believed that "Greene's outstanding characteristic as a strategist was his ability to weave the maraudings of partisan raiders into a coherent pattern, coordinating them with the maneuvers of a field army otherwise too weak to accomplish much, and making the combination a deadly one.... [He] rem...
Memorials
His statue, along with that of Roger Williams, represents the state of Rhode Island in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol. Washington, D.C., also hosts a bronze equestrian statue of Greene in Stanton Park. A large oil portrait of Nathanael Greene hangs in the State Room in the Rhode Island State House, and a statue stands outside the building's south facade. A cenotaph to him stands in the Old Forge Burial Ground in Warwick. Greene is also memorialized by statu...
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Major General Nathanael Greene (often misspelled Nathaniel Greene) of the Continental Army was George Washington's most competent and important general of the American Revolutionary War. He rose from the rank of militia private at the outbreak of the war to major general by its end.
Biografía. Greene nació el 7 de agosto de 1742 en Potowomut, Warwick, Rhode Island, cuando todavía era colonia británica. Sus padres fueron Nathaniel Greene Sr. y Mary Mott Greene. Se casó en 1774 con Catharine Littlefield Miller y tuvo seis descendientes con ella.
1 de may. de 2024 · Nathanael Greene (born August 7, 1742, Potowomut, Rhode Island [U.S.]—died June 19, 1786, Mulberry Grove, Georgia, U.S.) was an American army general in the American Revolution (1775–83). After managing a branch of his father’s iron foundry, Greene served several terms in the colonial legislature and was elected commander of ...
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31 de may. de 2022 · Nathanael Greene was an important General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and one of the best military strategists in the army. After Britain passed the Coercive Acts, he helped organize a militia company in Rhode Island in preparation for war.
Nathanael Greene’s rise to prominence as one of the most skilled and celebrated generals of the American Revolution appears unlikely based upon his early life. Greene was born to a devout Quaker family in Rhode Island in August of 1742.
