Greene, Nathaniel
soldier, was born May 27, 1742, in Warwick, R. I. He never gained a decided victory, yet his retreats, for which he is noted, had the effect of successes.
Congress voted him the highest honors, and he was considered, next to Washinggreatest ton, the general of the revolution. He died June 19, 1786, near Savannah, Ga. Congress voted that a monument be erected to his memory in Washington, D. C., which has not yet been done.
GREENE, NATHANIEL, journalist, author, was born May 20, 1797, in Boscawen, N. H. He was a Boston journalist, postmaster of Boston in 1829-40 and 1845- 49. He published a translation of Sforzosi's History of Italy; Tales from the German; and Tales and Sketches from the German, Italian and French. He died Nov. 29, 1877, in Boston, Mass.