Nathaniel Greene
BIRTH
Aug 7, 1742
Warwick, Rhode Island
DEATH
June 19, 1786
Chatham County, Georgia
FAMILY
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Greene, Nathaniel
(1742-1786)
Major-General Nathanael Greene was an American military officer and planter who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He emerged from the war with a reputation as one of George Washington's most talented and dependable officers, and is known for his successful command in the Southern theater of the conflict.
HOMES:
MUSEUM
Nathaniel Greene Homestead
50 Taft St, Coventry, RI 02816
GRAVE:
MONUMENT
Nathaniel Greene Monument
2 E Bryan St, Savannah, GA 31401
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HUSBAND
Catharine Littlefield Greene
(1755-1814)
Martha Washington Greene Nightingale
(1777-1839)
Cornelia Greene
(1778-1862)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Valley Forge National Historic Park | 1400 N Outer Line Dr, King of Prussia, PA 19406 | MUSEUM | ||
George Washington's Mount Vernon | 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121 | MUSEUM | ||
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park | 2332 New Garden Rd, Greensboro, NC 27410 | MUSEUM | ||
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters | 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138 | MUSEUM | ||
Washington's Crossing State Park | 355 Washington Crossing Pennington Rd, Titusville, NJ 08560 | MUSEUM | ||
Washington's Crossing Historic Park | 1112 River Rd, Washington Crossing, PA 18977 | MUSEUM | ||
Morristown National Historic Park - Washington's Headquarters - Ford Mansion | 30 Washington Pl, Morristown, NJ 07960 | MUSEUM | ||
Morristown National Historic Park - Jockey Hollow | 586 Tempe Wick Road, Morristown, NJ | MUSEUM | ||
Monmouth Battlefield State Park | 20 NJ-33 Business, Manalapan Township, NJ 07726 | MUSEUM | ||
Jacob Purdy House | 60 Park Ave, White Plains, NY 10601 | MUSEUM | ||
Van Veghten House | 9 Van Veghten Dr, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 | MUSEUM | ||
Eutaw Springs Battlefield Park | 12933 Old Number Six Hwy, Eutawville, SC 29048 | PARK | ||
Nathaniel Greene Homestead | 50 Taft St, Coventry, RI 02816 | MUSEUM | ||
Fort Lee Historic Park | Historic Park Road, Fort Lee, New Jersey, 07024, USA | PARK | ||
Cambridge Common | Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02163, USA | PARK | ||
Battle of New Garden Marker | 5800 W Friendly Ave, Greensboro, NC 27410 | MARKER | ||
Fort Washington Memorial | 501 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY 10033 | MARKER | ||
Battle of Harlem Heights | 478 Riverside Drive, New York, New York, 10027, USA | MARKER | ||
Battle of Brooklyn Marker | Belt Parkway, New York, New York, 11209, USA | MARKER | ||
Battle of Hobkirk Hill Marker | 1991 Lyttleton Street, Camden, South Carolina, 29020, USA | MARKER | ||
Fort Dorchester Marker | 300 State Park Rd, Summerville, SC 29485 | MARKER | ||
Germantown Greene Marker | 6909 Limekiln Pike, Philadelphia, PA 19138 | MARKER | ||
Main Line of Defences Marker | 3582 Broadway, New York, New York, 10031, USA | MARKER | ||
Daniel Boone, Greene, and Cornwallis Marker | 1908 Farmington Road, Farmington, North Carolina, 27028, USA | MARKER | ||
Daniel Boone and Nathaniel Greene Marker | 6 N Main St, Lexington, NC 27292 | MARKER | ||
Middle Redoubt of the American Army 1776 Marker | 508 West 153rd Street, New York, New York, 10031, USA | MARKER | ||
Four Chimneys Marker | 5-1 Remsen St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 | MARKER | ||
Bogart's Tavern Marker | 4705 York Rd., Buckingham, PA 18912 | MARKER | ||
Trading Ford Marker | 264 Hilltop Dr, Linwood, NC 27299 | MARKER | ||
Before There Was A Park Marker | 5th Avenue, New York, New York, 10035, USA | MARKER | ||
Waterman Tavern Marker | 463 Chaplin Dr, Coventry, RI 02816 | MARKER | ||
Kentish Guards Drill Field Marker | 121 Peirce St, East Greenwich, RI 02818 | MARKER |
DIED:
Chatham County, Georgia
Jun 19, 1786
Born into a prosperous Quaker family in Warwick, Rhode Island, Greene became active in the colonial opposition to Britishrevenue policies in the early 1770s and helped establish the Kentish Guards, a state militia unit. After the April 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord, the legislature of Rhode Island established an army and appointed Greene to command it. Later in the year, Greene became a general in the newly established Continental Army. Greene served under George Washington in the Boston campaign, the New York and New Jersey campaign, and the Philadelphia campaign before being appointed quartermaster general of the Continental Army in 1778.
In October 1780, Washington appointed Greene as the commander of the Continental Army in the southern theater, where he was involved in several engagements, primarily in Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina. After taking command, Greene engaged in a successful campaign of guerrilla warfareagainst a numerically superior British force led by Charles Cornwallis. He gained several strategic victories at Guilford Court House, Hobkirk's Hill, and Eutaw Springs, eroding British control over the American South.
Major fighting on land came to an end following the surrender of Cornwallis at the siege of Yorktown in October 1781, but Greene continued to serve in the Continental Army until late 1783. After the war, he settled down to a career as a plantation owner in Georgia, but his rice crops were mostly a failure. He died in 1786 at the Mulberry Grove Plantation in Chatham County, Georgia.