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See also:GREENE, See also:NATHANAEL (1742-1786) , See also:American See also:general, son of a Quaker See also:farmer and See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
smith, was See also:born at Potowomut, in the township of See also:Warwick, Rhode See also:Island, on the 7th of See also:August (not, as has been stated, 6th of See also:June) 1742. Though his See also:father's See also:sect discouraged " See also:literary accomplishments," he acquired a large amount of general See also:information, and made a See also:special study of See also:mathematics, See also:history and See also:law. At See also:Coventry, R.I., whitherhe removed in 1770 to take See also:charge of a forge built by his father and his uncles, he was the first to urge the See also:establishment of a public school; and in the same See also:year he was chosen a member of the legislature of Rhode Island, to which he was re-elected in 1771, 1772 arid 1775. He sympathized strongly with the Whig, or Patriot, See also:element among the colonists, and in 1774 joined the See also:local See also:militia. At this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he began to study the See also:art of See also:war. In See also:December 1774 he was on a See also:committee appointed by the See also:assembly to revise the militia See also:laws. His zeal in attending to military See also:duty led to his See also:expulsion from the Society of See also:Friends.
In 1775, in command of the contingent raised by Rhode Island, he joined the American forces at See also:Cambridge, and on the 22nd of June was appointed a brigadier by See also:Congress. To him See also:Washington assigned the command of the See also:city of See also:Boston after it was evacuated by See also:Howe in See also:March 1776. Greene's letters of See also:October 1775 and See also:January 1776 to See also:Samuel See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward, then a delegate from Rhode Island to the See also:Continental Congress, favoured a See also:declaration of See also:independence. On the 9th of August 1776 he was promoted to be one of the four new See also:major-generals and was put in command of the Continental troops on See also:Long Island; he See also:chose the See also:place for fortifications (practically the same as that picked by General See also:Charles See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee) and built the redoubts and entrenchments of Fort Greene on See also:Brooklyn Heights. Severe illness prevented his taking See also:part in the See also:battle of Long Island. He was prominent among those who advised a See also:retreat from New See also:York and the burning of the city, so that the See also:British might not use it. Greene was placed in command of Fort Lee, and on the 25th of October succeeded General See also:Israel See also:Putnam in command of Fort Washington. He received orders from Washington to defend Fort Washington to the last extremity, and on the 11th of October Congress had passed a See also:resolution to the same effect; but later Washington wrote to him to use his own discretion. Greene ordered See also:Colonel Magaw,whowas in immediate command,to defend the place until he should hear from him again, and reinforced it to meet General Howe's attack. Nevertheless, the blame for the losses of Forts Washington and Lee was put upon Greene, but apparently without his losing the confidence of Washington, who indeed himself assumed the responsibility. At Trenton Greene commanded one of the two American columns, his own, accompanied by Washington, arriving first; and after the victory here he urged Washington to push on immediately to See also:Princeton, but was over-ruled by a See also:council of war. At the See also:Brandywine Greene commanded the reserve. At See also:Germantown Greene's command, having a greater distance to march than the right wing under See also:Sullivan, failed to arrive in See also:good time—a failure which Greene himself thought (without cause) would cost him Washington's regard; on this, with the affair of Fort Washington, See also:Bancroft based his unfavourable estimate of Greene's ability. But on their arrival, Greene and his troops distinguished them-selves greatly.
At the urgent See also:request of Washington, on the 2nd of March 1778, at Valley Forge, he accepted the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of quartermaster-general (succeeding See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Mifflin), and of his conduct in this difficult See also:work, which Washington heartily approved, a See also:modern critic, Colonel H. B. See also:Carrington, has said that it was " as good as was possible under the circumstances of that fluctuating uncertain force." He had become quartermaster-general on the understanding, however, that he should retain the right to command troops in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field; thus we find him at the See also:head of the right wing at See also:Monmouth on the 28th of June. In August Greene and See also:Lafayette commanded the See also:land forces sent to Rhode Island to co-operate with the See also:French See also:admiral d'See also:Estaing, in an expedition which proved abortive. In June 178o Greene commanded in a skirmish at See also:Springfield, New See also:Jersey. In August he resigned the office of quartermaste;-general, after a long and See also:bitter struggle with Congress over the interference in See also:army See also:administration by the See also:Treasury See also:Board and by commissions appointed by Congress. Before his resignation became effective it See also:fell to his See also:lot to preside over the See also:court which, on the 29th of See also:September, condemned Major See also:John See also:Andre to See also:death.
On the 14th of October he succeeded See also:Gates as See also:commander-inchief of the See also:Southern army, and took command at See also:Charlotte, N.C.,
on the 2nd of December. The army was weak and badly equipped and was opposed by a See also:superior force under See also:Cornwallis. Greene decided to See also:divide his own troops, thus forcing the See also:division of the British as well, and creating the possibility of a strategic interplay of forces. This See also:strategy led to General See also:Daniel See also:Morgan's victory of See also:Cowpens (just over the See also:South Carolina See also:line) on the 17th of January 1781, and to the battle at See also:Guilford Court See also:House, N.C. (March 15), in which after having weakened the British troops by continual movements, and See also:drawn in reinforcements for his own army, Greene was defeated indeed, but only at such cost to the See also:victor that See also:Tarleton called it " the See also:pledge of ultimate defeat." Three days after this battle Cornwallis withdrew toward See also:Wilmington. Greene's generalship and See also:judgment were again conspicuously illustrated in the next few See also:weeks, in which he allowed Cornwallis to march See also:north to See also:Virginia and himself turned swiftly to the reconquest of the inner See also:country of South Carolina. This, in spite of a See also:reverse sustained at See also:Lord Rawdon's hands at Hobkirk's See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill (2 m. N. of See also:Camden) on the 25th of See also:April, he achieved by the end of June, the British retiring to the See also:coast. Greene then gave his forces a six weeks' See also:rest on the High Hills of the Santee, and on the 8th of September, with 2600 men, engaged the British under Lieut.-Colonel See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Stuart (who had succeeded Lord Rawdon) at Eutaw Springs; the battle, although tactically drawn, so weakened the British that they withdrew to See also:Charleston, where. Greene penned them during the remaining months of the war. Greene's Southern See also:campaign showed remarkable strategic features that remind one of those of See also:Turenne, the commander whom he had taken as his See also:model in his studies before the war. He excelled in dividing, eluding and tiring his opponent by long See also:marches, and in actual conflict forcing him to pay for a temporary See also:advantage a See also:price that he could not afford. He was greatly assisted by able subordinates, including the See also:Polish engineer, Tadeusz Kosciusko, the brilliant See also:cavalry captains, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry (" See also:Light-See also:Horse Harry ") Lee and See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Washington, and the See also:partisan leaders, Thomas See also:Sumter and See also:Francis See also:Marion.
South Carolina and See also:Georgia voted Greene liberal grants of lands and See also:money. The South Carolina See also:estate, See also:Boone's See also:Barony, S. of Edisto in See also:Bamberg See also:County, he sold to meet bills for the rations of his Southern army. On the Georgia estate, Mulberry See also:Grove, 14 M. above See also:Savannah, on the See also:river, he settled in 1785, after twice refusing (1781 and 1784) the See also:post of secretary of war, and there he died of See also:sunstroke on the 19th of June 1786. Greene was a singularly able, and—like other prominent generals on the American See also:side — a self-trained soldier, 'and was second only to Washington among the See also:officers of the American army in military ability. Like Washington he had the See also:great See also:gift of using small means to the utmost advantage. His attitude towards the Tories was humane and even kindly, and he generously defended Gates, who had repeatedly intrigued against him, when Gates's conduct of the campaign in the South was criticized. There is a See also:monument to Greene in Savannah (1829). His statue, with that of See also:Roger See also:Williams, represents the See also:state of Rhode Island in the See also:National See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall of Statuary in the Capitol at Washington; in the same city there is a See also:bronze equestrian statue of him by H. K. See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown.
See the See also:Life of Nathanael Greene (3 vols., 1867-1871), by his See also:grand-son, See also:George W. Greene, and the See also:biography (New York, 1893), by Brig.-Gen. F. V.
End of Article: GREENE, NATHANAEL (1742-1786)
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