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GREEN BAY 399 GREENE of the Specie Resumption Act on Jan. 14, 1875"; urged the issue of United States notes as a circulating medium, and the suppression of bank paper; and pro- tested against the further issue of gold bonds, and the purchase of silver to re- place the fractional currency. Peter Cooper was nominated for President, and received 81,740 votes. In 1880 its candidate was James B. Weaver, who re- ceived 306,305 ballots. It has never gained any electoral votes. In 1884 the party indorsed the nomination of Ben- jamin F. Butler by the People's party, which polled 175,370 votes. GREEN BAY, a city and county-seat of Brown co.. Wis.; on Green bay, the Fox river, and the Chicago and North- western, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Green Bay and Western, and the Kewaunee, Green Bay and West- ern railroads; 65 miles N. N. E. of Fond du Lac. It is at the head of lake and the foot of river navigation; has an am- ple harbor, and carries on a large trade in lumber, coal, grain, flour, cheese, etc. It has waterworks, electric lights and street railroads. National banks, public library, high school, several Roman Cath- olic and Lutheran parochial schools. The United States Government constructed a ship canal to connect the Mississippi river with Lake Michigan, using the Wis- consin and Fox rivers, the cost of which was over $10,000,000. Pop. (1910) 25,236; (1920) 31,017. GREENE, FRANCIS VINTON, an American military officer; born in Provi- dence, R. I., June 27, 1850. He grad- uated from West Point in 1870, and served till 1886, when he resigned with the rank of captain. He was assistant astronomer on the Northwest Boundary Survey from 1872 to 1876, and was at- tached to the headquarters of the Rus- sian army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. In the American- Spanish War (1898), he was commis- sioned a Major-General of volunteers and served principally in the Philippines. His chief works are: "The Russian Army and its Campaigns in Turkey" (1879) ; "Army Life in Russia" (1880); "The Mississippi" (1882); "Life of Nathanael Greene" (1893), and a detailed report on the Philippine Islands (1889). He was Police Commissioner in New York City in 1902. Author of "The Revolutionary War and Military Policy of the U. S." (1911), etc. GREENE, NATHANAEL, an Ameri- can military officer; bom in Warwick co., R. I., May 27, 1742. His school educa- tion was of the simplest and most limited character; but by industry he acquired a knowledge of the principal branches of English education, and made some progress in law. On the commence- ment of the troubles between the colonies and Great Britain, he volunteered as a private (1774) ; but the following year he was chosen, by the Assembly of Rhode Island, general of the contingent fur- nished by that colony to the army near Boston. He was made Major-General in the Continental army in 1776, and ac- companied Washington on his brilliant expedition into New Jersey near the close of the same year. He performed a prominent part in the disastrous battle of Germantown (1777), on which occa- sion his courage and skill did much to- ward retrieving the reputation of the American arms. In 1778 he was ap- pointed quartermaster-general. After the defeat of General Gates (1780) at the battle of Camden, S. C, he was appointed to the command of the S. army, which ho found demoralized, and in a state of utter destitution. His presence soon re- stored the confidence of the troops. In March, 1781, he was defeated by Lord Cornwallis in the hard-fought battle of Gu-ilford Court House, but the English general derived no permanent advantages from this success. Cornwallis having re- treated into Virginia, Greene defeated, after a severe action (September, 1781), the forces of Colonel Stewart at Eutaw Springs, and thereby put an end to the British power in South Caro- lina. This was the last battle in which General Greene was engaged, though he held his command till the end of the war. He died from the effect of a sun- stroke at Mulberry Grove on the Savan- nah river, June 19, 1786. GREENE, ROBERT, an English poet and dramatist; born in Norwich, Eng- land, in 1560. He took his degree of A. B. at Cambridge University in 1578. He afterward traveled in Spain and Italy. On his return he re-entered the Univer- sity, and took his degree of A. M. in 1583. On leaving Cambridge he pro- ceeded to London, where he supported himself by writing plays and romances. One of the latter, "Pandosto: The Tri- umph of Time,"' supplied Shakespeare with hints for the plot of "The Winter's Tale." The most popular of his plays was "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay." His literary fame rests on the poetry which he scattered through his ro- mances — some of his pastoral songs be- ing unsurpassed for tenderness and nat- ural grace. He died in London, Sept. 3, 1592. After his death appeared the sin- gular pamphlet entitled "The Repentance of Robert Greene, Master of Arts," in which he lays bare the wickedness of his former life.