9. Give a short account of Washington.
10. What were the leading causes of the Revolution? Its most striking result?
Nathaniel Greene.
CHAPTER XVII
Nathaniel
Greene, the Hero
of the South,
and Francis
Marion, the
"Swamp Fox"
[1742-1786]
We have rapidly glanced at the course of the Revolution so far as Washington was concerned in it. But we should fail to understand the connection of events were we to pass over without mention the work of the brilliant general, Nathaniel Greene, who by common consent is regarded as a military leader second to Washington alone.
As already noted, the first fighting in the Revolution was in New England. Failing there, the British generals vainly tried to get control of the Hudson River and the Middle States.
Their attention was now turned to the South, where there were many Tories who would give material support to the King's forces. George the Third had great hopes of conquering all the Southern States, and holding them at the end of the struggle as English territory, even though the Americans should succeed in keeping possession of New England and the Middle States.