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Pro-American Canadian Andrew Westbrook and his force with American Michigan rangers made a bold move against the Delaware settlement of Canada, crossing the frozen Thames to swoop down and capture a British Canadian leader Capt. Daniel Springer, (1st Oxford) but also four other Canadian militia officers- Col Francois Baby(1st Kent), Capt. Belah ...
Prior to the War of 1812, an Indiana Rangers detachment under Captain William Hargrove detained a British subject they believed was supporting indigenous resistance to white American settlers in Indiana. [7]
Nathan Boone – was a captain of a company of United States Rangers in the War of 1812; Benjamin Forsyth – a key subordinate commander of the American Regiment of Riflemen; John Tipton – an officer with the Indiana Rangers, went on to become a brigadier general and then a U.S. Senator
The Battle of the Sink Hole, sometimes known as "Forgotten War", was fought on May 24, 1815, after the official end of the War of 1812, between Missouri Rangers and Sauk Indians led by Black Hawk. According to Robert McDouall , the British commander in the area, the Sauk had not received official word from the British that the Treaty of Ghent ...
With the outbreak of the War of 1812, Caldwell was commissioned a lieutenant colonel and given command of a group of between 40 and 50 volunteers from the Canadian militia, called Caldwell's Rangers (or the Western Rangers). He fought at the Battle of the Thames and the Battle of Longwoods, among many other actions. He gained commissions for ...
An act of January 12, 1812, authorized the President to raise up to six companies of rangers, either volunteers or men enlisted for a one-year period, whenever he had evidence of actual or threatened invasion of any Indian tribes. [3] In July an additional company was authorized, and in February 1813 ten additional companies. [4] [5]
On May 26, 1775, Timothy Bedel, a member of the New Hampshire provincial assembly representing Bath, [1] was appointed to command a company of rangers to be raised at Coos, New Hampshire (an Abenaki name for a place variously spelled cowasuk, cohos, or Koes), a military command located in Haverhill, New Hampshire and Newbury, Vermont where natives gathered to transport people and goods into ...
The King's Rangers, also known as the King's American Rangers, was a Loyalist provincial ranger unit that specialized in close combat, irregular warfare, raiding, reconnaissance, and tracking. It raised in Nova Scotia for service during the American Revolutionary War .