Washington was a better general then military strategist. His strength lay not in his genius on the battlefield but in his ability to keep the struggling colonial army together. His troops were poorly trained and lacked food, ammunition and other supplies but he was able to rally his troops together and implement and use the suggestions of others when on the battlefield. I think his skills to use the ideas of others and keep the troops together helped us win the war once the Continental army learned Prussian tactics from Baron Friedrich von Steuben.