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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 ...
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.
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 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.
Globe Life Field is a retractable roof stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States.It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers. [10] It is located just south of the Rangers' former home ballpark, Globe Life Park (originally known as The Ballpark in Arlington and renamed Choctaw Stadium after the Rangers' departure and subsequent reconfiguration).
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 ...
He first served at Fort William Henry near Lake George, where he probably first met, and may have served under, Robert Rogers of Rogers' Rangers. Rogers eventually recommended him for an officer's commission in a new company of the Rangers; in 1758, after having worked for his brother providing supplies for the British Siege of Louisbourg, he ...