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Captain Rogers was sent on a reconnaissance mission from Fort Edward northwards toward Fort Carillon on March 10, 1758. [8] Lieutenant Colonel William Haviland, the fort's commander, had originally planned on 400 men taking part but reduced the number to 180, [9] even though he had reason to believe the French knew of the expedition.
Rogers' Rangers was a company of soldiers from the Province of New Hampshire raised by Major ... By early 1758, the rangers had been expanded to a corps of fourteen ...
On 7 July 1758, Rogers' Rangers took part in the Battle of Carillon. Abenakis (18th-century) In 1758, Abercromby recognized Rogers' accomplishments by promoting him to Major, with the equally famous John Stark as his second in command. Rogers now held two ranks appropriate to his double role: Captain and Major.
On 8 August 1758, a large party with the Light Infantry of the 22nd, 40th, and 45th Regiments and 143 Rangers under the command of Lord Rollo of the 22nd Regiment sailed for the Island of St. Johns. Rollo proceeded to Ile Saint-jean with 500 men on four transport ships: King of Prussia, Dunbar, Bristol, and Catherine.
On January 21, 1757, Captain Robert Rogers and a band of his rangers were on a scouting expedition near Fort Carillon on Lake Champlain when they were ambushed by a mixed troop of French regulars, Canadien militiamen, and Indians. The fighting ended when darkness set in, with significant casualties on both sides.
St. John River campaign: The construction of Fort Frederick (1758) by Thomas Davies. On September 13, 1758, Monckton and a strong force of regulars and rangers (Gorham's Rangers, Danks' Rangers and Rogers' Rangers) left Halifax and arrived at the mouth of the Saint John River a week later.
The Cape Sable campaign occurred in the fall of 1758 during the French and Indian War.The British sought to neutralize Acadian support for the French by deporting them. . Colonel Roger Morris led a force of 325 British soldiers, aided by Captain Joseph Gorham with 60 rangers and Rogers' Rangers, [1] to destroy the Acadian settlements in present-day Shelburne County and Yarmouth County, Nova ...
Rogers had to travel down the Connecticut River to Fort at Number 4 for reinforcements and supplies for his hungry men. During the American Revolutionary War , Jeremiah Eames' Company of rangers garrisoned and repaired the unused fort from 1776 to 1778 in order to protect northern New Hampshire from attack from the British nearby in Canada .