Robert Rogers of the Rangers

Ticonderoga, NY: Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 1988. Reissue. Softcover. Fine. Softcover in color illustrated self wrappers. Fine. xii+ 308 with indexWith illustrations and six maps. New preface for this edition. Biography of Robert Rogers (1731-1795), a colonial American frontiersman who fought for the British both in the Frenc and Indian War and the American War for Independence. During the French and indian War he raised and commanded a company of New Hampshire soldiers to form Rogers Rangers, who were noted for close combat and operations behind enemy lines. After that conflict, Rogers voyaged to England and petitioned George III to support an expedition to fine a Northwest Passage; her returned to America as the royal Governor of a portion of Michigan but was unpopular and mistrusted by British military commander Thomas Gage. gage had him arrested for treason and sent to Montreal for trial but Rogers was acquitted. He fell out of favor with the King and spent some time in debtors prison after returning to England. He came back to America in 1775, was offered a commission by Congress in the Continental Army but declined saying that he was a British military officer. Some time later, he petitioned George Washington for a command commission; Washington not only turned him down but had him arrested. He escaped custody and formed the Queens Rangers for the British and in 1776 assisted in the capture of Nathan Hale.