I assume that you are talking about the time in early 1777
when George Washington attempted to hurt the British by stopping their foraging
parties. He believed that he could weaken the British by stopping them when they sent
parties out to try to get food and other things they needed for the soldiers and for
their animals.
This tactic of Washington's worked in the
way that guerrilla tactics tend to work -- they tied down a large number of British
troops. Every time the British sent out foraging parties, they had to send troops along
to protect them. This meant that those soldiers could not be used somewhere else. It
also actually made the problem worse because more soldiers meant more need to
forage.
So the main impact of this part of the war was to
reduce the levels of manpower that the British were able to dedicate to fighting the
war.
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