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Fraunces Tavern,
306

Frederick the Great,
2
-3,
29
,
40
,
117

French and Indian War,
23
,
28
,
49
,
61
,
65
,
238

Gage, General Thomas,
41
,
45
,
46
,
47
,
48
,
65

Gaspee
, HMS,
32
,
33
-34,
35
-38

Gates, General Horatio,
4
,
6
,
8
,
75
,
105
,
132
,
169
,
238
-39

      as adjutant general,
57
,
65
,
66

      as commander of southern army,
4
,
5
,
9
,
226
-27,
230
,
232
,
238
-39

      replacement of Washington, spoken of as,
148
-49,
155
,
156
-57,
168
,
169

      Saratoga and,
4
,
143
,
148
-49,
155
,
157
,
168
,
227

      War Board and,
156

George III, King,
36
-37,
38
,
46
,
67
,
71
,
87
,
104

      Rhode Island renounces allegiance to,
82

Georgetown, South Carolina,
274
,
275

Georgia,
263
,
264
,
265
-66,
278

      civil authority in,
232
,
272
,
273

      gift of land to Greene,
300
,
310
,
312

      proposal to enlist blacks from,
296
-98

Germain, Lord George,
25
,
3

Germantown, Pennsylvania,
4
,
143

      Battle of,
143
-49,
154

Gibraltar,
208

Gorton, Samuel,
13
-14

Granby, Fort,
272

Greene, Catherine (daughter),
312

Greene, Catherine Littlefield (Caty) (wife),
88
,
197
,
303

      debts from war years,
315

      described,
7
-8,
42
,
83
,
159
,
301

      education of,
43
,
53
,
127

health of,
5
,
125
,
126
,
180
,
184
,
187
,
191
,
192
,
194
,
196
,
206
-207,
301
,
302
,
310
,
312
,
313

lovers after Nathanael's death,
158
,
314

as mother,
74
,
8
,
3
-84,
141
,
158
,
194
-95,
216

Deborah Olney and,
242
-43

relationship with Nathanael,
9
-11,
42
,
55
,
79
,
83
,
84
,
126
,
127
-28,
140
-41,
184
,
185
,
206
-207

         after the war,
306
-13

         at camp in Middlebrook,
128
,
196
,
200
,
206
,
208

         correspondence,
7
,
10
,
52
-53,
63
-64,
106
,
109
,
112
,
113
,
118
,
124
-25,
126
,
127
-28,
1
,
32
,
136
,
137
,
1
,
39
,
150
-51,
174
,
180
,
187
,
200
,
206
-208,
221
-22,
228
,
229
,
243
,
260
,
277
-78

         death of Nathanael,
313
-14

         reunited after Yorktown victory,
294
95
,
299
,
300
,
304

         wedding,
43

         at winter quarters,
7
,
9
,
10
,
74
-7,
5
,
78
,
158
-
59
,
169
,
174
,
194
-96,
206
,
208
,
210
-11,
218

      George Washington and,
74
,
78
,
83
,
195
,
196
,
200
,
206
,
208
,
242
-43,
294
-95

Greene, Catherine Ray,
42
-43,
53
,
69

Greene, Christopher (brother),
30
,
118
,
158
,
172

Greene, Christopher (cousin),
60
,
150
,
151
,
185
-86,
191

Greene, Cornelia Lott (daughter),
192
,
194
,
195
,
206
,
210
,
307
-308

Greene, Elihue (brother),
158

Greene, Fort,
82

Greene, George Washington (grandson),
18
-19,
21
,
22
,
184
,
185
,
200

Greene, George Washington (son),
6
,
8
,
74
,
83
-84,
141
,
158
,
187
,
194
-95,
196
,
210
,
294
,
29
,
9

Greene, Griffin (cousin),
39
,
178
,
200
,
204
,
299

      Nathanael as quartermaster general and,
171
,
172

Greene, Jacob (brother),
6
,
14
,
52
,
53
,
70
,
74
,
96
,
129
,
158
,
159
,
308

      correspondence with Nathanael,
54
-55,
56
,
178
-79

      Nathanael as quartermaster and the family business,
171
-73

Greene, Dr. John (great-great-grandfather),
12
,
13
-
14

Greene, Louisa (daughter),
310

Greene, Martha Washington (daughter),
6
,
124
,
141
,
158
,
184
,
185
,
187
,
194
-95,
210

      health of,
158
,
206

Greene, Mary Motte (mother),
12
,
20

Greene, Nathanael:

      ambitiousness,
2
,
85
,
157

ancestry,
12
-13

birth of,
12

as businessman,
1
,
28
,
29
,
34
,
36
,
37
,
57
,
202
-204

      after the war,
308
-13,
315

      gifts of land from southern states,
298
-99,
300
-301,
309
-10,
312
-13,
315

      service as quartermaster general and,
165
,
167
,
171
-73,
203
,
204
-205

Caty and, see Greene, Catherine Litttefield (Caty) (wife), relationship with Nathanael childhood of,
1
,
14
-23

civilian life, return to,
306
-13

Congress and,
84
-85,
122
-23,
128
-31,
135
,
310

      as commander of southern army,
234
,
248
-49,
259
-60,
264
,
270
,
275
,
285
-86,
290
,
303
,
305
-306

      critics of Greene,
149
,
150
,
155
-57,
204
-205

      Greene's debts and,
313
,
315

      monument to honor Greene,
315

      regular army, need for,
96
-97,
190

      secretary of war, consideration for position of,
291
-92

      during service as quartermaster general,
164
-67,
183
,
196
-99,
204
-205,
215
-18,
225
-26,
291

in Continental army-:

      administrative duties,
88
-89,
118
,
121

      as Boston's military commander,
76
,
78

      Brandywine, Battle of,
136
-40,
179
,
182
,
220

      as brigadier general,
2
,
56
-57,
61
-85

      Congress, relations with,
see this entry under
Congress and

      critics of,
140
,
149
,
154
-58,
172

      detail, mastery of,
81
,
89
,
162
-63,
171

      discipline and,
62
,
74
,
78
,
81
-82,
88
,
97

      Fort Washington and,
98
-103,
109
,
117
,
134

      Germantown, Battle of,
143
-49

      Harlem Heights, Battle of,
94
-95

      Long Island, as commander of forces on,
2
,
79
,
80
-92

      becomes major general,
3
,
85

      major general title retained while quartermaster general,
166

      New Jersey command,
95
-98,
103
-106

      Princeton and,
115
-17

      resignation as major general at end of war,
305
-306

      southern army, command of,
see
Continental army, southern army

      threatened resignation,
130
,
131
,
178
-79,
182
,
199
,
211
,
215
-16,
217
,
225
-26

      Trenton and,
110
-12,
114
-15

      Valley Forge and,
158
-64,
198
,
303

      West Point, as commandant of,
6
-8

      winter of
17-
77,
120
-25

criticism or slights, sensitivity to,
2
,
45
,
84
,
127
,
130
-31,
139
-40,
154
-58,
172
,
179
-83,
193
,
251
,
277
,
284

death and funeral of,
313
-15

diplomacy and,
188
-90,
192
,
241
,
273
,
292
-93

du Coudray appointment and,
129
-31,
135

education of,
1
,
15
-16,
20
,
28
,
30
,
43
,
57
,
85
,
135

      self-,
2
-3,
20
-23,
29
,
50
,
66
,
122
,
303

as general of Rhode Island Army of Observation,
1
,
2
,
46
-47,
49
-56

health problems,
29
-30,
158

      asthma,
5
,
29
,
37

      before Battle of Long Island,
90
-91

      jaundice,
74
,
75

      during southern campaign,
254
-55

insecurity of,
2
,
85

limp,
1
,
19
,
44
-45,
56
,
58
,
130
,
303

logistics and,
97
-98,
162
-63

      
see also this entry under
as quartermaster general

military tactics and strategy,
3
,
4
,
40
,
56
,
67
,
77
,
108
,
132
,
151
-52,
153
,
173
,
198
,
215
,
222
-25,
302
-303

      as commander of southern army,
see
Continental army, southern army

      Fort Washington,
100
,
102
-103,
109
,
117
,
314

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