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Greene (FRANCIS VINTON an American)

FRANCIS VINTON, an American military officer; born in Providence, R. I., June 27, 1850. He graduated from West Point in 1870, and served till 1886, when he resigned with the rank of captain. He was assistant astronomer on the Northwest Boundary Survey from 1872 to 1876, and was attached to the headquarters of the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. In the American- Spanish War (1898), he was commissioned a Major-General of volunteers and served principally in the Philippines.

His chief works are: "The Russian Army and its Campaigns in Turkey" (1879); "Army Life in Russia" (1880) ; "The " (1880); "The Mississippi" (1882) "Life of Nathanael Greene" (1893), and a detailed report on the Philippine Islands (1889). He was Police Commissioner in New York City in 1902. Author of "The Revolutionary War and Military Policy of the U. S." (1911), etc.