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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Massachusetts, he fought in King George's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
Robert Rogers (born Nov. 7, 1731, Methuen, Mass. [U.S.]—died May 18, 1795, London, Eng.) 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).
Robert Rogers was a frontiersman who rose to fame during the French and Indian War. He is known for founding Rogers' Rangers and his "28 Rules of Ranging." Although he died poor and destitute, his memory is kept alive by the United States Rangers and popular culture.
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 New England Colonies army as an independent ranger company.
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.
Often hailed as the godfather of today’s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on “impossible” missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers’ legend.
Among the recruits who joined one company assigned to scout the upper Merrimack River valley around Rumford (later Concord), New Hampshire, was the teenager Robert Rogers. Incessant French and Indian inroads turned the war of 1744–48 into a largely defensive one for the northern colonies.
The British thought Robert Rogers' 28 rangers rules were unconventional. But the guerilla tactics he outlined worked in 1757 -- and they still work today.
Particularly true is this remark when applied to Major Robert Rogers, the Ranger, who, in our last French war, greatly distinguished himself as a partisan commander, and gained as wide fame as did any other soldier of equal rank and opportunity.
Robert Rogers was a popularly acclaimed military leader during the French and Indian War, who institutionalized many frontier-style practices of warfare and whose forces are regarded by some as the model for later ranger activities. Rogers was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, but spent his formative years on the frontier in New Hampshire.