American soldier and writer, son of General George Sears Greene; born in Providence, RI, on the 27th of June 1850; graduated from the United States Military Academy, in the engineer corps, January 1874; joined the American legation in St. Petersburg as attaché in 1877, and followed the Russian army in the field for one year; left the service in 1886, after having held the functions of instructor in practical engineering at West Point. Among his works, the most important is the Russian Army and Its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877–78 (2 vols., 1879).
