[justshutupandtakeit]

Washington's strategy was to let the British keep the cities since that encouraged the lassitude of the commanders and kept their army from being useful. Hamilton was the greatest American ever to call NY city his home. It was also on the wrong side during the Civil War being RATrun and Union troops fresh from the battle of Gettysburg were sent in to control the rioting and killing unleashed by the RAT gangs against the Blacks living there.

NY during Hamilton's time was under the control of George Clinton and a stronghold of states' rights and anti-federalism.

[Alberta's Child]

Maybe his strategy was to let the British keep the cities because most of the people in those cities were British supporters anyway.

It's hard to tell what Washington's strategy might have been during that war -- the colonials lost most of the battles they fought against the British.