Nathanael Greene Research Paper

One of the many among helping the American country win the Revolutionary war was Nathanael Greene. Best known for his command in the Southern Campaign, forcing British Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis to leave the Carolinas and head for Virginia. Nathanael Greene was George Washington's most trusted general and one of his closest friends. Out of all of the years of the war George Washington and Nathanael where the only to serve all eight as the rank of a general. July 27th, 1742 the day that Nathanael Greene was born, named after his father Nathanael Greene. On July 20th, 1774, he married Catharine Littlefield nicknamed Caty, later having six children. Greene being an avid reader picked up on militia tactics and began to teach himself
Greene hoped he could draw the British to another bunker hill. Fort Washington held 3,000 American troops, British attacked on November 15 with 10,000 men under General Howe orders witch ended in total destruction. Washington losing confidence in Greene for a period of time Greene learned from his mistakes and altered his strategies. The American forces being underfunded and undersupplied at some points Greene had to spend his own money and at one time expenses that would cost him all of his holdings in Rhode Island, and the money and land given to him by the state of North Carolina at the end of the Revolutionary War. Nathanael made a smart move by dividing his forces and coordinated their efforts into a ”flying army” doing so spreading his resources out .The race to the Dan river where Greene’s forces outran the British and beat them across the river, by the time the British got there the river was too high to cross and the boats were at the other side of the river. Battles leading to the defeat of the British included Hobkirk's Hill, siege of the Ninety-six, and Eutaw Springs. Little more than a month after the battle of Eutaw Springs, Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at