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

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