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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.
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.
The 1757 Battle on Snowshoes (French: Bataille en raquettes) was a skirmish fought between Rogers' Rangers and Canadien and Indian troops during the French and Indian War on January 21, 1757. The battle was given this name because the British combatants wore snowshoes .
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 ...
In 1758, he joined Rogers' Rangers and served in northern New York and Canada. On December 15, 1774, he was with John Langdon and John Sullivan in the raid on Fort William and Mary at New Castle, New Hampshire. At the start of the American Revolutionary War, Cilley was appointed major of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment.
Petitcodiac River, New Brunswick. The Petitcodiac River campaign was a series of British military operations from June to November 1758, during the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War), to deport the Acadians that either lived along the Petitcodiac River or had taken refuge there from earlier deportation operations, such as the Ile Saint-Jean campaign.