The Militant Quaker

Exalted Pasha,     

In case your human slave didn't tell you, Nathaniel Greene was "the militant Quaker." He was born in Rhode Island during the eighteenth century. Greene was reared in a pious Quaker family. However, he had an itchy trigger finger.

When the Revolutionary War broke out, Greene jumped at the chance to join the army in spite of his Quaker upbringing. His church was not amused. They gave him the "left foot" of fellowship, if you get my drift. Even though he obviously had no prior military training, he was a natural born soldier and leader. Greene quickly advanced through the ranks until he was promoted to a brigadier general. He even became the first Quartermaster General of the Continental Army.

This was a task he never liked. He had a tough time rounding up supplies for the impoverished army. However, he excelled when put on the battle field. Most historians rank him second only to George Washington in terms of leadership ability during the American Revolution. Interestingly enough, Greene never won any decisive battles, but he always forced the enemy to squander men and resources that they could not afford to lose in battle. At the end of the Revolution, he gradually forced Cornwallis northward out of the Carolinas and into Virginia. The harassed Cornwallis retreated to Yorktown. While at Yorktown, Cornwallis was penned in by a combined French and American force led by Washington.

For his efforts in helping Washington win the war, a grateful Congress gave him a plantation in Georgia. At Greene's plantation on St. Simon Island, a certain entrepreneur named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The cotton gin revolutionized the South's agricultural system, leading to the vast plantation empire controlled by southern aristocrats and toiled by thousands of slaves.  Actually, I think that cats invented slavery. We have made the human race our servants, and those humans are too stupid to realize it. They think they own us. Of course, we know it is the other way around.

                                        Solidarity,                                        Zoe the Wonder Cat

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