Nathaneal Greene
...athaneal’s county formed a militia, which the later called “The Kentish Guards.” Even though he was one of the founders, he was unable to participate in the group because a little limp he had since he was a child. When the news of the battles at Lexington and Concord reached Rhode Island, Greene was one of four Kentish Guardsmen who went to Boston to offer help. While Greene was traveling, the General Assembly of Rhode Island ordered a force of sixteen hundred men to go to Boston. Later Greene would take charge of state troops and on June 22, 1775 he was named the youngest General in the continental army at age 32. He first met George Washington in Boston. Washington was very pleased with him and a year later Washington would consider Greene his best general to replace him in case he got captured or got killed. He would participate in the Battle of Harlem Heights, the Battle of Princeton, the battle of Brandywine and the Battle of Germantown. Then, on March 2, 1778 Washington selected Greene to be the new Quartermaster General of the continental army. The next clash he took part in was the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778. After Major General Horatio Gates was defeated by the British army in the south Washington appointed Greene the new southern commander. The way Greene won back the South from General Cornwallis and the British was they would never stay in one spot they would fire at the British then run, then when the Americans had the advantage, then they would go offensive. At the Battle of Guilford Courthouse the British won but suffered many harsh losses in a close victory. The weakened Cornwallis arm withdrew from Wilmington North Carolina went to York town Virginia where ran into and lost against a Franco- American force. Greene led his army into three more battles, The Battle of Hobrik’s Hill (April 25 1781), the siege of Ninety-Six (May 22,1781) and the Battle of Eutaw Springs (September8, 1781) the bloodiest battle of the whole war. Although Greene succeeded in completely destroying the British Power in the southern states, he ...