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ton OF Washington. no Revolutionary General
made so dssp an Impression on the minds OF
his contsm porariea or established such abtd-
ing claims upon the gratitude OF their de-
seendants - did the subject OF this volume. IL
II a curious fact. and one which bears witness
10 the good sense OF the American people. that
IN the case Of Greene. even more than In the
case OF Washington. less heed should have
been paid TO brilliant achievement In
che Geld than TO the substantial re-
suits Of warfare Greene was in active SER
vice from the beginning to the end Of the Rev.
oiutionary war. and during the latter part Of
the struggle he was an Independent comman-
der throughout an extensive territory. Yet. 10
We concur with theauthor OF this narrative In
pronouncing the fight at Eutaw Springs q
drawn battle Greene never gained victory
ppon field where he personally commanded.
t was not however. By the tactics known as
Fabian that he was successful In driving the
British. though possessed OF greatly superior
force within the walls OF Charleston, and was
Justly acclaimed by the States Of North Caro-
lima South Carolina and Georgia as their lib
orator Far from avoiding battles. he contin-
ualy invited them: but what was chsracteris-
tic OF him, as OF Washington. was the fact
that he never suffered defeat to become
rout. but imm ediatelv after encountering re-
verse resumed tho offensive. He was. In short.
one Oh NnObo ueueThib WIN WOuiu Sway
whipped: indeed. he never considered himself
whipped. and thus inspired at once unshska-
BILE consistency In his own men and supersti-
tious misgiv1nc in the enemy. When one meas
ures the odds against him. as regards not only
the quantity and quality OF soldiers. but every
kind OF armament and supplies. one can hard
~ credit the magnitude OF the work accom-
plished by him in less than year after he
took command OF the wreck OF the Continental
army which. under Gates. had suffered ieho-
minious defeat at Camden on Aug 10. 1880.
To contrast wildly the situation with which
Greene had to deal with that in which. at the end
OF some twelve months he placed the States
that he had come to rescue, We cannot do
better than to reproduce some sentences
from pages 165-166 OF tho book before us.
The author points out that In the four
months preceding Aug. 10. 1880. the British
had moro than made up Mt the South what
they had lost at the North during the two
years between the battle OF Long Island and
the evacuation OF Newport. Against the sur
render OF Burgoyne they had matched the
equalization OF Lincoln with the force sta
toned at Charleston. and they had Offset the
retreat from Pennsylvania and Jersey BY tho
slbjugatiou OF the two Carolinas and Georgia
and the destruction of Gates's army. Such"
says the writer OF this narrative, was the
situation when Greene went to the South. not
so much to command as to create an army.
Within nine months from the time he arrived he
had reconquered Georgia and the Carolinas.
with the exec ption OF Charleston and Savannah.
and. though defeated in several engageme nts.
he had manGuvred CORVALLIS into Virginia."
where Washington was to fall upon that COM
mander with the French army and what was left
OF tho Continentals. Almost at the Same instant
Greene defeated, or at least forced to retreat,
the remnant OF the British army In South
Carolina at Eutaw Springs. and drove II into
Charleston. These two events practically put
an end to the war. although the treaty OF peace
was not finally signed until two years later"
As these words express the judgment Of his
tory. and as the record OF Greene's campaigns
IN the Carolinas IN familiar to all Ann orleans.
we shall limit ourselves In this notice to that
section OF this narrative which deals with the
earlier part Of the subjects career,
Nathsnis, Greene was born on Aug. z. 1742;
whore. the author does not definitely say. lint
evidently Il was In Warwick. Rhode Island.
He was descended In the fourth generation
from John Greene. n surgeon OF Salisbury.
England. who landed at Boston In 1885. but
presently aided Roger Williams to found the
colony OF Rhode Island. 1t was John Greene
who. with q few others. purchased from the
anoi1nS III iosi tract on tne west sue Oh
Narragansett Bay. about four miles wide and
twenty miles long which was eventually
named WARWICK IN grattuds LOT the kindness
snown the settlers In lot4 OF tho Earl OF war
wick. then Lord High Admiral Of the colonies.
John Greene was one OF u committee Of ten
seieotod 70 organize the colonies. under the
sharter OF 1888. and mis- son was ono
Of the ton Assistants" to the Governor
named Tor the nrst year OF the charter
OF looS. which. SO relatively liberal was It, re-
manned In force until 1888 inc descendants
OF John "reene multiplied rapidly In warwick.
each generation furnishing men conspicuous
In the community. including Governors. Dep
MY Governors seere'ariesiot ths colony and
Deiegalss 70 the oonerai assembly. me SUB
,eet OF this narrative was the NTH OF family OF
nine children HIS iather. also named NAthan-
iei. was QUAKER preacher OF ths most narrow-
minded type HIS son mad reason. In AFTER years.
to EXPRESS regret that his fathers mind was
overshadowed with prejudice against liter
arr aceompllshments. HIS devotion to the
tenets OF the Friends did not prevent him from
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