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1742 – 1786Nathanael Greene (1742-1786)Died 19 June 1786, aged 43Nathanael Greene, one of George Washington's most trusted generals during the American Revolutionary War, died of sunstroke near Savannah, Georgia. His campaign of strategic retreat and attrition in the Carolinas is credited with breaking British control of the American South. Congress and several states had granted him land in recognition of his wartime service.