Don Wildman

Anyway, what sets Nathaniel Green apart?

All the way through.

Washington is credited with being, we're not going to win this as much as we're going to hold our own in this battle.

I wonder how much of that comes from Nathaniel Green, who until recently, I really didn't understand, played such a role in that vision.

Yeah.

It's kind of a two-part story for Greene in the Revolution.

He's, in the beginning, quartermaster.

He is fighting at the beginning, but he becomes more of a logistics guy for Washington.

Washington, but later he takes over more of a Southern command, right?

And he applies everything that he's learned about sort of hit and run kind of tactics.

You know, his phrase was, we fight, we get beat, rise and fight again.

And that was the general strategy for this whole war, really, but winning by losing.

His most famous battle, Guilford Courthouse, 1781, late in the war.

Tactical defeats where American forces had to retreat after inflicting disproportionately high casualties on the British harkens back to the Bunker Hill lessons.

You know, that kind of way that they started to realize, oh, we could beat these guys just by, you know, making them bleed, but still, you know, holding our troops at bay.

This leads to Cornwallis basically forced to retreat to the coast.

Wouldn't have won the revolution without this guy from beginning to end.

It was an incredible thing.

All right, Jonathan, we're going to take a break.

I want your opinion on the first two.