Washington, to his everlasting credit, did not fail. By early in 1777, writes Kwasny, in one of the best studies of Washington’s generalship, “he clearly had abandoned the strategy of a war of posts.” Rather, he became a modified Fabian, pursuing “a more fluid war of maneuver, skirmish, and occasionally full-scale battle. As long as the British kept coming out of their camps and fighting, he could use the militia and detached regulars to inflict damage while protecting the main army.”49
