What strategy did washington continually use in order to keep his army alive and in the field?

Washington was that army's only fixed point. He led its recruiting drives, planned its actions, and never left it—not in the heat of battle, nor in the painful winter encampments. From the moment Congress commissioned him general, he married his reputation to the Continental army's. Washington became the one-man embodiment of the army itself, and thus of the idea of an American nation. His name became synonymous with the colonists' cause.