Equestrian Statue of Nathanael Greene in Greensboro

Nathanael Greene commanded the Continental Army's Southern Department starting in 1780, leading a campaign of strategic retreats and skirmishes that wore down Lord Cornwallis's forces across the Carolinas. His tactics at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in March 1781, fought just a few miles from this site, left Cornwallis's army so depleted that it withdrew toward Virginia and ultimately surrendered at Yorktown later that year. The monument's base carries a line attributed to Cornwallis himself: "Greene is as dangerous as Washington; I never feel secure when encamped in his neighbourhood." Greensboro, founded in 1808, was named in Greene's honor for his role in turning the tide of the war in the South.

Taken March 2012