This should be regarded as the definitive biography for years to come.” ―Robert M. The depth and breadth of research are outstanding, and the prose a joy to read. “Terry Golway has done a magnificent job of capturing the personal and professional Nathanael Greene and portraying him as a living, vibrant, exceptionally competent general whose significance has not been widely appreciated until now. Ellis, author of His Excellency: George Washington Read this book and you will understand why.” ―Joseph J. Washington once said that, if he went down in battle, Greene was his choice to succeed him.

“While researching and writing a book about George Washington, I concluded that Nathanael Greene was the most under appreciated great man in the War for Independence, and that he deserved a modern biography that told his incredible story. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Read this book and you will understand why.' - Joseph J. 'Washington said if he went down in battle, Greene was his choice to succeed him. Terry Golway argues that Greene's appointment as commander of the American Southern Army was the war's decisive moment, and this bold new book returns Greene to his proper place in the Revolutionary era's pantheon. He is vigilant, enterprising, and full of resources.' Greene's ingenious tactics sapped the British of their strength and resolve even as they 'won' nearly every battle. I never feel secure when I am encamped in his neighborhood. His opponent in the south, Lord Cornwallis, wrote, 'Greene is as dangerous as Washington. Greene's southern campaign, which combined the forces of regular troops with bands of irregulars, broke all the rules of eighteenth-century warfare and foreshadowed the guerrilla wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. After many daring exploits during the war's first four years (and brilliant service as the army's quartermaster), he was chosen in 1780 by Washington to replace the routed Horatio Gates in South Carolina. Untrained in military matters when he joined the Rhode Island militia in 1774, he quickly rose to become Washington's right-hand man and heir apparent. Although places named in his honor dot city and country, few people know his quintessentially American story as a self-made, self-educated military genius who renounced his Quaker upbringing-horrifying his large family-to take up arms against the British. Nathanael Greene is a revolutionary hero who has been lost to history. The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of American independence at Yorktown

Washington's General by Terry Golway