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GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE (1811-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 538 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE (1811-1883)  ,
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American historian, was born at East
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Greenwich, Rhode Island, on the 8th of
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April 1811, the grandson of Major-General
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Nathanael Greene . He entered Brown University in 1824,
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left in his junior
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year on account of
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ill-
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health, was in
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Europe during the next twenty years, except in 1833-1834, when he was
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principal of Kent Academy at East Greenwich, and was the
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United States consul at Rome from 1837 to 1845 . He was instructor in
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modern
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languages in Brown University from 1848 to 1852; and in 1871-1875 was non-
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resident lecturer in American
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history in Cornell University . He died at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, on the 2nd of
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February 1883 . His published
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works include French and
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Italian text-books;
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Historical Studies (185o);
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Biographical Studies (186o); Historical View of the American Revolution (1865);
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Life of Nathanael Greene (3 vols., 1867-1871); The German Element in the War of American Independence (1876) ; and a Short History of Rhode Island (1877) .

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