Well, I believe George Washington won exactly one major battle (Yorktown). But Washington was undoubtably a great general. How many Northern Generals won more than 5 or 6 major battles? Grant, probably. Pretty sure nobody else did.
Lee's achievements were monumental. But revisionist historians need to tear down anyone on the "wrong side" of history.
Only because his character and tenacity saved the cause of Independence. He was not particularly good either tactically or strategically.
Oddly enough, the greatest military genius on either side in that war was probably Benedict Arnold. And he was on both sides!
BA was in many ways the inverse of Washington. A truly great soldier and a man of no character.
He was not generally thought of as a great commander during the French and Indian War period of 1754, following the French takeover of the British fort under construction in Pennsylvania where the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers join to form the Ohio and continued the construction, renaming it Fort Duquesne. Washington then set out with troops to retake the post and set up camp in Great Meadows, southeast of Fort Duquesne. Upon receipt that a nearby French contingent intended to attack, he launched a preemptive strike against the French camp, the first engagement of the yet undeclared French & Indian War.
Though Washington's forces were victorious won that engagement, he was then defeated by a superior force sent out from Fort Duquesne, leaving the French in command of the entire region west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Lee managed at least a little better than that over his years as commander of the armies of the Confederacy, though bedeviled by logistical shortcomings from the beginning that only worsened as the war progressed. But his political leaders never found cause to replace him in the field, though the same cannot be said on the other side.
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