How do I determine convergence of the following sum using Cauchy test?

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The sum is

$ \sum _{n=1}^{\infty }2^n\left(\frac{n}{n+1}\right)^{n^2}\: $

I started by studying the asymptotic behavior

$ 2^n\left(\frac{n}{n+1}\right)^{n^2}\:=2^n\left[\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)^{n\:}\right]^{-n} $

So if the following sum is convergent

$ \sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{2^n}/e^{n} $

I suppose I should reason that the sum under question is also convergent (am I right about this?), I guess this is just for simplification.

Then I introduce $ \varepsilon >0 $, and as I see should prove that there exists such $ N<n $ that following thing holds for all $n$ and $p$

$ \left|{2^n}/{e^n}+{2^{n+1}}/{e^{n+1}}+...+{2^{n+p}}/{2^{n+p}}\:\right|<\varepsilon $

The least thing I can do from there on is this

$ {2^n}{e^{-n}}\left|1+{2}/{e}+...+{2^p}/{2^p}\:\right|<\varepsilon $

How do I prove such $N$ exists?