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Nathaniel Greene
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Major General Greene commanded the American forces at the Battle of Guilford Court House (in North Carolina) on 15 March 1781. The Americans lost that battle, but their harassing tactics slowed down the north-eastward movement of Lord Cornwallis's British forces enough to allow the Americans to prepare to defeat them at Yorktown, Virginia, where the British were forced to surrender on 19 October 1781, after a 20-day siege, thus ending the war.
Places named for Nathaniel Greene
- Fort Greene Ville, Ohio[?]
- Greene County, Alabama
- Greene County, Arkansas
- Greene County, Georgia
- Greene County, Illinois
- Greene County, Mississippi
- Greene County, Missouri
- Greene County, New York
- Greene County, North Carolina
- Greene County, Ohio
- Greene County, Pennsylvania
- Greene County, Tennessee
- Greene County, Virginia
- Greensboro, North Carolina
- Greensville County, Virginia (possibly; there are other claimed origins)
- Greenville, Mississippi
- Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, New York
- Greene Street in New York City
- Greene Square in Savannah, Georgia
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