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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
His long history of being defeated and managing to survive meant he knew when a battle would be lost and how to run away.

When you’re fighting a guerilla war against a superior foe, those turn out to be helpful skills.
gpt
I agree. His biggest strength as a general was the ability to humbly listen to hood advice. One of Washington's predilictions was to hop into battles he was hopeless to win, but he listened to the company he kept and held back/retreated at key moments that saved the American experiment. 

The man also *really* knew how to retreat. That sounds like a backhanded compliment but he seriously got himself out of some tough jams with some top-tier strategic and well organized retreats. Just look at his retreat from New York in the early days of the war...dang near miraculous. 

He just also, ya know...ended up needing a lot of help learning how to train his men. And...sent Charles Lee as a linchpin to a strategy that Charles had fought against vehemently. Just some, ya know, mistakes. 

I respect the man Washington more than almost anyone in history, I just don't think he was a Napoleon or whatever.