Independence Day- 100 Days, History
I want to share a story published in the July issue of Smithsonian Magazine, 100 Days That Shook The World, a tale of how we almost lost the Revolutionary War and of a seldom remembered General who tilted the balance in our favor.
"Nathanael Greene's meteoric rise could hardly have been predicted. A Quaker whose only formal schooling had been a brief stint with an itinerant tutor, Nathanael was set to work in his teens in the family-owned sawmill and iron forge. In 1770, he took over management of the foundry. In 1774, the last year of peace, Greene, then 32, married Catherine Littlefield, a 19-year-old local beauty, and won a second term to the Rhode Island assembly.Later that year, Greene enlisted as a private in a Rhode Island militia company. When hostilities between Britain and the Colonies broke out at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775, Greene was suddenly elevated from the rank of private to brigadier general...."
I hope that you enjoy it, and here is wishing you a great 4th of July.
ps- I also recommend that you jump over to Rush's site and listen to Red Skelton read the Pledge of Allegiance, (always a classic this time of year), and Rush also has his father's speech on the travails of our country's founders up there as well.
