Which phrase describes the way george washington kept his small army together during the early years of the american revolution

As head of the Continental Army, during the early years of the American Revolution Washington decided to retreat rather than to attack. In one of his earliest military actions, the New York campaign (August 1776), he devised a plan that amazed the British army: he took the decision to retreat his defeated troops (9,000 men) safely from their position atop Brooklyn Heights to Manhattan without losing any man. After this event Washington's forces were subsequently defeated in a series of battles, so he decided to retreat his army to Pennsylvania.

when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.