“In apt summary of his remarkable way of war, [Nathanael] Greene wrote, ‘There are few generals that have run oftener, or more lustily than I have done… But I have taken care not to run too far, and commonly have run as fast forward as backward, to convince our enemy that we were like a […]
Posts Tagged ‘nathanael greene’
Gen. Greene’s strategies played key role in Vietnam
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged james a warren, nathanael greene, Vo Nguyen Giap on May 19, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Gen. Greene bypassed obscurity common to quartermasters
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged battle of guilford courthouse, nathanael greene on January 2, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“History never remembers who the quartermasters were: That was Nathanael Greene’s retort when George Washington pressed on him the job of quartermaster of the Continental Army in 1778. “And though Greene yielded to Washington’s plea, he was right. Despite doing a near-miraculous job in rebuilding the fragile supply network of the American Revolution, he is […]
WWI training camp laid foundation for modern Charlotte
Posted in On This Day, tagged camp greene, charlotte nc, leonard wood, nathanael greene on July 5, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1917: Gen. Leonard Wood visits Charlotte to inspect possible sites for a World War I training camp. The result will be Camp Greene, built on 2,500 acres and named for Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene. The camp trains soldiers for less than two years, but rouses Charlotte’s economy and hastens its […]
Monument to Gen. Greene thwarted by sectionalism
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged greensboro nc, guilford courthouse, memories of war, nathanael greene, nc whigs, thomas a chambers on February 24, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“As early as 1848 local leaders had advocated [according to Greensboro’s Whig newspaper] ‘a Monument erected to the memory of [Gen. Nathanael] Greene, and devoted to the perpetual Union of these States.’ Who could object to such a monument, ‘connected as it is with the South?’ …. “Unlike the memorials at other Southern battlefields, that […]
3-ton statue weighs in for Meck Dec
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged captain james jack, charlotte, equestrian statues, greensboro, mecklenburg declaration of independence, nathanael greene, r.j. reynolds, Winston-Salem on May 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Whatever your opinion of the long-disputed Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, this bronze-clad sculpture of deliveryman Captain James Jack is quite a piece of advocacy art. I can think of two other examples of equestrian statues in North Carolina: Gen. Nathanael Greene in Greensboro and R. J. Reynolds in Winston-Salem. Are there more?
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