The American Revolution was fought between the years 1775 and 1783 on American soil (and sometimes Canadian) between the American Continental Army and their allies the French and Spanish against the colonial mother country Britain and paid soldiers called Hessians. The American victory culminated primarily when British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781, after a four week long Franco/American siege under General George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau.
But who was the American general who drove Lord Cornwallis out of the Carolinas and into Virginia in the first place? George Washington’s most trusted and capable major general, Nathanael Greene. I have written a biographical novel about this often forgotten general whose name every American should know and whose tireless effort is often lost to the annals of history.
When the first shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775, thirty-two-year-old Nathanael Greene, a self-educated Quaker with no military experience, dismayed his family and marched toward Boston as general of the Rhode Island provincial army. General George Washington recognized his unwavering belief in American independence and the qualities that catapulted him to a major general in the Continental Army.
From the hard lessons learned on the battlefields of New York, to his appointment as Quartermaster General during the harsh winter at Valley Forge, his role in convicting the British spy who colluded to obtain the plans to West Point, to the godsend who took command of the ragged remnants of the Southern Continental Army, Nathanael Greene’s complex perseverance and brilliant strategies broke military doctrines.
This is the story of the man who rose to become a national hero by resuscitating and then propelling the American states to victory in their war for independence and the personal cost of that war.
“The Line of Splendor: A Novel of Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution” is available on Amazon. Click on the cover or the link to order your copy and learn about the life of one of the greatest generals of the American Revolution. Huzzah! https://www.amazon.com/Line-Splendor-Nathanael-American-Revolution-ebook/dp/B0CDN4MLY2
Salina B Baker 