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Major-General Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) 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 ...
Nathanael Greene departed Portsmouth for shakedown on 30 December 1964, with her Gold Crew embarked; it was relieved on 1 February 1965 by the Blue Crew. Her shakedown period was followed by repairs and alterations at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, after which the submarine, with her Blue Crew embarked, departed the shipyard for ballistic missile loading and her initial Polaris missile deterrent ...
Nathaniel or Nathanael Greene may refer to: Nathanael Greene (1748–1786), American Revolutionary War general SS Nathanael Greene, a Liberty ship; Nathaniel Greene (journalist) (1797–1877), American journalist; Nathaniel Greene Foster (1809–1869), American politician, lawyer, and military officer; Major General Nathanael Greene, a bronze ...
Nathanael Greene was born on August 7, 1742, at Forge Farm in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, present-day Rhode Island. [5] He was born into a Quaker upper-income family. Despite his family's religious beliefs against "book learning," Greene convinced his father to hire a tutor. [ 6 ]
The General Nathanael Greene Homestead, also known as Spell Hall, is a historic house at 50 Taft Street in Coventry, Rhode Island. [3] It was the home of American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene from 1770 to 1776, and was owned afterwards by his brother Jacob Greene and his wife Margaret. The house is owned and operated by the ...
Portrait of Nathanael Greene by John Trumbull (1792). Nathanael Greene was born in Rhode Island in 1742 and was raised as a pacifist Quaker.However, in the leadup to the American Revolution, he helped to found a militia in Rhode Island and eventually rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Continental Army.
Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.
The Van Veghten House is a historic building in the Finderne section of Bridgewater Township, New Jersey.It was built around 1725 and served as the headquarters of Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene during the second Middlebrook encampment (1778–79) in the American Revolutionary War.