Rise and Fight Again

The Life of Nathanael Greene

Spencer Tucker

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781684516834
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Early American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Next only to Continental army commander General George Washington, Nathanael Greene was the most important American general of the War for Independence. Self-taught but extraordinarily capable, Greene won few battles. But his campaign that won the South for the revolutionary cause was the most brilliant and daring of the entire war.In Rise and Fight Again, award-winning military historian Spencer Tucker tells the story of Greene's rise from relative obscurity to military prominence at the tender age of thirty-two. He reveals Greene to have been a strict disciplinarian who insisted on rigorous training but was also deeply concerned for the welfare of his men. Tucker also shows that Greene was by nature a problem-solver who recognized talent and knew how to harness it effectively. Indeed, although Greene was the youngest general in his army, Washington assigned him the herculean task of serving as its quartermaster general. Greene proved so effective in this demanding assignment that in October 1780 he was given command of the Southern Department. Taking charge of a sharply depleted, dispirited force lacking all manner of military equipment and even clothing, Greene refused to be drawn into pitched battles save on favorable terms. He rebuilt the Southern army in less than a year and adopted daring tactics that defied conventional military wisdom but recaptured from British control most of the Carolinas and Georgia.Greene has rarely been accorded his earned place in the history of the American founding, in part because of his early death in 1786, when he was just forty-three. But with Tucker's brief but masterful biography, Greene finally gets his due.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Preface
• Nathanael Greene Timeline
• Chapter One: Early Life to 1775
• Chapter Two: The Approach of War
• Chapter Three: Beginning of the War and the Siege of Boston
• Chapter Four: New York and New Jersey
• Chapter Five: The War in Pennsylvania: Brandywine and Germantown
• Chapter Six: The Widened War
• Chapter Seven: The War in the South
• Chapter Eight: Greene’s Southern Campaign: First Phase
• Chapter Nine: Guilford Court House
• Chapter Ten: Hobkirk’s Hill
• Chapter Eleven: Fort Motte and Ninety Six
• Chapter Twelve: Eutaw Springs
• Chapter Thirteen: End of the War
• Chapter Fourteen: Last Years
• Afterword
• About the Author
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright