As I understand it, Washington was not a talented battlefield strategist, but he listened to and took advice from subordinates. He was a very good politician and leader. He held the army together under conditions as bad as those portrayed in the series. He wanted a decisive victory, but he listened to better strategists than himself who counseled against going head to head with the well-trained and well-equipped British army in a battle where he could lose everything. It's probably true that he wanted to take New York, but it is absolutely unbelievable that he should have angrily and insultingly dismissed his senior officers' advice.
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