Which statement about the regulars of the Continental Army is true?
A) Most of the soldiers were older, propertied farmers with families, whose substantial farms, left to the care of wives and children in their long absence, fell into disrepair.
B) Despite the hardships, Continental soldiers-who had enlisted for the sake of liberty-refused the temptations of desertion and mutiny that plagued the hired armies of Europe.
C) While local partisans in the South often ran at the first encounter with the enemy, the Continental Army proved its mettle in a series of victories in the Carolinas and Georgia.
D) In social composition and military tactics, the American army came to resemble the British army.
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