 Getting back to fighting in the war, the war does not go well for a long time. You know, there are very few victories for the continental army. What was there to prevent desertions or was there much of, of anything after all, even the most patriotic fighters often had to get home to plant or pick the crops, uh, or their families might starve. Desertion. Um, what's interesting about desertion from the continental army or from the militias, um,