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Eventually, he found capable officers, like General Nathanael Greene and his chief-of-staff Alexander Hamilton.

The American officers never equaled their opponents in tactics and maneuver, and consequently they lost most of the pitched battles.

The great successes, at Boston ( 1776 ), Saratoga ( 1777 ) and Yorktown ( 1781 ), came from trapping the British far from base with much larger numbers of troops.