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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Rogers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was an American colonial frontiersman. Rogers served in the British Army during both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
May 14, 2024 · Robert Rogers was an American frontier soldier who raised and commanded a militia force, known as Rogers’s Rangers, which won wide repute during the French and Indian War (1754–63). A unique corps of 600 frontiersmen who successfully adapted Indian techniques to their fighting, Rogers’s Rangers.
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Jun 24, 2022 · Robert Rogers was a famous frontiersman from Massachusetts who rose to fame during the French and Indian War and then sided with the British during the American Revolutionary War.
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May 29, 2018 · The colonial American Robert Rogers (1731-1795) was a frontiersman and army officer in the French and Indian War. Later he was extremely successful as a ranger, raider, and reconnaissance officer. Robert Rogers was born in Methuen, Mass., on Nov. 18, 1731.
Rogers' Rangers was a company of soldiers from the Province of New Hampshire raised by Major Robert Rogers and attached to the British Army during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War). The unit was quickly adopted into the British army as an independent ranger company.
Apr 15, 2016 · When the French and Indian War began, Capt. Robert Rogers of New Hampshire recruited frontiersmen in 1755 for companies that could support the British Army by conducting long-range patrols...
On the cold, gray winter afternoon of January 17, Rogers and 84 Rangers filed out of Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George for a long-range reconnaissance patrol to the northern French forts. Each Ranger carried a flintlock musket, powder, and shot for 60 rounds.
