When Nathanael Greene was appointed commander of the southern Continental forces in the fall of 1780, he wrote to George Washington that he would be forced to fight “a kind of partisan war,” until he could raise an army large enough to contend with the British. Greene’s strategy was to check the main British army […]

Slug: Mount Vernon
Date: 12 / 2008
Photographer: Mark Finkenstaedt
Location: Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens
Caption: GW Generals
© 2008 Mount Vernon/Mark Finkenstaedt. All Rights Reserved.
Join Historical Programs Manager Andrew Outten for a presentation on a pair of holster pistols that was owned by Gen. Nathanael Greene and given to his aide-de-camp, Nathaniel Pendleton, who served under Greene during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. The brass box-lock pistols were made about 1782 by William Grice and Charles Freeth […]