Greene
Greene names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Greene NATHANAEL, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
NATHANAEL, an American military officer ; born in Warwick co., R. I., May 27, 1742. His school education was of the simplest and most limited character; but by industry he acquired a knowledge of the principal branches of English education, and made some progress in law. On the commencement of the troubles between the colonies and Great Britain, he volunteered as a private (1774); but the following year he was chosen, by the Assembly of Rhode Island, general of the contingent furnished by that colony to the army near Boston. He was made Major-General in the Continental army in 1776, and accompanied Washington on his brilliant He performed a expedition into New Jersey near the close of the same year . prominent part in the disastrous battle of Germantown (1777), on which occasion his courage and skill did much toward retrieving the reputation of the American arms . pointed quartermaster-general. After the defeat of General Gates (1780) at the battle of Camden, S. C., he was appointed to the command of the S. army, which he found demoralized, and in a state of utter destitution. His presence soon restored the confidence of the troops. In March, 1781 , he was defeated by Lord Cornwallis in the hard-fought battle of Guilford Court House, but the English general derived no permanent advantages from this success . Cornwallis hav treated into Virginia, Greene defeated, after a severe action (September, 1781), the forces of Colonel Stewart at Eutaw Springs , and thereby put an end to the British power in South Carolina. This was the last battle in which General Greene was engaged, though he held his command till the end of the war. He died from the effect of a sunstroke at Mulberry Grove on the Savannah river, June 19, 1786. In 1778 he was aphaving re-
Greene ROBERT, an English poet and dramatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, an English poet and dramatist; born in Norwich, England, in 1560. He took his degree of A. B. at Cambridge University in 1578. He afterward traveled in Spain and Italy. On his return he re-entered the University, and took his degree of A. M. in 1583. On leaving Cambridge he proceeded to London , where he supported himself by writing plays and romances . One of the latter , "Pandosto: The Triumph of Time," supplied Shakespeare with hints for the plot of "The Winter's Tale." The most popular of his plays was "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay." His literary fame rests on the poetry which he scattered through his romances-some of his pastoral songs being unsurpassed for tenderness and natural grace. He died in London, Sept. 3, 1592. After his death appeared the singular pamphlet entitled "The Repentance of Robert Greene, Master of Arts," in which he lays bare the wickedness of his former life.
Greene FRANCIS VINTON, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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 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.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The lives here are closed and the facts largely stand, but a few things have moved since Collier's compiled this in 1921. Nathanael Greene's burial place, unmentioned above, had in fact been lost for decades; his remains were identified in a vault in Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery in 1901 and reinterred beneath his monument in Johnson Square in 1902. Francis Vinton Greene, written up in the present tense as a living author and former police commissioner, died in New York in 1921, the very year the entry appeared. For Robert Greene, the shift is scholarly rather than factual: modern editors treat the posthumous deathbed pamphlets, including "The Repentance," with suspicion as possible booksellers' fabrications, and Greene is now best known for the "Groatsworth of Wit" jibe at the "upstart crow" Shakespeare, which Collier's does not mention at all.
Written for this edition, 2026.