Greene’s Strategy: Lose to Win

Losing battles was actually the secret code to winning the American Revolution. General Nathanael

Greene knew his army was broke and exhausted, so he completely flipped the script.

Instead of trying to crush the British in a fair fight, he decided to just annoy them to death.

He led General Cornwallis on a wild goose chase across the South, dragging the British

army through swamps and forests until they were starving and totally drained. Greene literally

admitted they would fight, get beat, and just get back up.

Cornwallis technically won the fights, but he wrecked his own army doing it, leading straight

to his surrender at Yorktown. Sometimes you just have to survive to win.