"...it is appropriate to centralize authority."
Centralized authority is the right to command immediate subordinates. This exist in an organizational management structure, where all of the decisions and orders come from the top levels of the organization. The top level is the one who coordinates, monitors, and assesses the activities needed to accomplish certain tasks.
A totaliterian dictatorship is a autocracy because a autocratic government usually has a dictator
The significance of the conflict was that the Hessian army crushed in Washington's raid across the Delaware River and the Americans were invigorated by the easy defeat of the British Hessian forces.