Tag: Officers

Lunch Bite – Nathanael Greene’s pistols

Slug: Mount Vernon Date: 12 / 2008 Photographer: Mark Finkenstaedt Location: Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens Caption: GW Generals © 2008 Mount Vernon/Mark Finkenstaedt. All Rights Reserved.

Join Historical Programs Manager Andrew Outten for a presentation on a pair of holster pistols that was owned by Gen. Nathanael Greene and given to his aide-de-camp, Nathaniel Pendleton, who served under Greene during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. The brass box-lock pistols were made about 1782 by William Grice and Charles Freeth […]