Encyclopedia > List of places named for Nathanael Greene
This is a list of places in the United States named for Nathanael Greene: Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of General Greene from life in 1783, which was then copied several times by C.W. Peale and his son, Rembrandt Peale. ...
Greene was prominent among those who advised a retreat from New York and the burning of the city so that the British might not use it.
Greene's generalship and judgment were again conspicuously illustrated in the next few weeks, in which he allowed Cornwallis to march north to Virginia and himself turned swiftly to the reconquest of the inner country of South Carolina.
NathanaelGreene (July 27, 1742 (O.S.)–June 19, 1786), was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.
Greene was placed in command of Fort Lee, and on October 25 succeeded General Israel Putnam in command of Fort Washington.
Greene's Southern campaign showed remarkable strategic features that remind one of those of Turenne, the commander whom he had taken as his model in his studies before the war.
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