Nathanael Greene

Richard Brookhiser | June/July 2006

Suppose they could go on "Meet The Press"...

June 1973

Third in a series of paintings for AMERICAN HERITAGE BY DON TROIANI

Major General Nathanael Greene, commanding the Continental Army in the south, spent mid-March of 1781 trying to lure Cornwallis and his army into battle on advantageous ground.

Encounter at the Brandywine

Richard F. Snow | February 1973

“The damn rebels form well”

Private Fastness: Tales Of Wild

William W. Winn | April 1972

CUMBERLAND ISLAND AND HOW MODERN TIMES AT LAST HAVE REACHED IT

One of the good things that happened in America in 1970—a year otherwise noted for spreading oil slicks, raging forest fires, mercury in rainbow trout, and burgeoning pipelines in the tundra—was the decision by the National Park Service to purchase Cumberland

Men of the Revolution: 3. Nathanael Greene

Richard M. Ketchum | December 1971

Overcoming painful ailments, Greene emerged from the Revolution with a military reputation second only to that of George Washington.

The American who emerged from the Revolution with a military reputation second only to that of George Washington was a Quaker with a physical affliction that had caused him to be rejected as an officer by the men in his militia company.

America’s Most Imitated Battle

Lynn Montross | April 1956

At Cowpens, Dan Morgan showed how militia can be used. The formula worked in three later fights.

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