2/27/2023 0 Comments Jean baptiste de langyThe son of Naunauphtaunk (q.v.), whom Rogers' commissioned to form his own Indian ranger company. Later published his discoveries and did not credit Rogers. Amateur mapmaker and surveyor, he served as Rogers's partner in his search for the Northwest Passage after the war. A faithful ranger leader, whom the Indians mistook for Rogers and horribly mutilated. A ranger who pacified the mutiny on Rogers's Island and fought valiantly in the Battle on Snowshoes. Portsmouth rector, Rogers's father-in-law, and fellow member of the Masonic Lodge. A 16-year-old private when he fought alongside Rogers at the Battle on Snowshoes, he recorded his experience of being wounded and captured in a hair-raising journal. Commander of bateau men during the French and Indian War. After concentrating the first large British force in North America, he built a road toward the French stronghold at the Forks of the Ohio in 1755, and was bitterly defeated and died. Commander of Carillon (later Fort Ticonderoga). Bourlamaque, Brigadier General Francois Charles de. Commander of the New Hampshire provincials, he gave Rogers his first command. Commandant of Fort Detroit, who surrendered to Rogers in 1760. Belestre, Captain François-Marie Picoté de. Friend of Rogers's father, who mistook him for a bear and shot him dead. An Abenaki sachem and diplomat from the village of Saint François, who attempted to negotiate neutrality with the British before the French and Indian War. He approved Rogers's plan to attack Saint François, then later sent him west to the receive the surrender of western French garrisons at the end of the French and Indian War. Took over British North American forces (1758-1768) after Abercromby (q.v.). He suffered disastrous defeat at the hands of a far smaller French garrison at Carillon (later Fort Ticonderoga). Assumed command of British North American forces (1756-1758) after Loudoun (q.v.). Nephew and aide-de-camp to Major General Abercromby (q.v.), he early discerned the value of Rogers's innovations. He presents with breathtaking immediacy and painstaking accuracy a man and an era whose enormous influence on America has been too little appreciated.ĭramatis Personae Abercrombie, Capt. Ross vividly re-creates Rogers's life and his spectacular battles, having traveled over much of Rogers's campaign country. Rogers would eventually write two seminal books whose vision of a unified continent would influence Thomas Jefferson and inspire the Lewis and Clark expedition. Never have the stakes of a continent hung in the hands of so few men. With their novel tactics and fierce esprit de corps, the Rangers laid the groundwork for the colonial strategy later used in the War of Independence. Covering heartbreaking distances behind enemy lines, they traversed the wilderness in whaleboats and snowshoes, slept without fire or sufficient food in below-freezing temperatures, and endured hardships that would destroy ordinary men. Marrying European technology to the stealth and adaptability he observed in native warriors, Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Robert Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. This swift, elusive, intelligence-gathering strike force was the brainchild of Robert Rogers, a uniquely American kind of war maker capable of motivating a new breed of warrior. Led by a young captain whose daring made him a hero on two continents, Rogers's Rangers earned a deadly fame among their most formidable French and Indian enemies for their ability to appear anywhere at any time, burst out of the forest with overwhelming force, and vanish just as quickly. They were a group of handpicked soldiers chosen for their backwoods savvy, courage, and endurance. Ross reconstructs the extraordinary achievements of this fearless and inspiring leader whose exploits in the early New England wilderness read like those of an action hero and whose innovative principles of unconventional warfare are still used today. Hailed as the father of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers was not only a wilderness warrior but North America's first noteworthy playwright and authentic celebrity. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author, Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation "This is an epic tale of America's first great war, told with novelistic flair, and bringing to life the greatest American military leader that most readers have never encountered until now." Joseph J. The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
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