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HERE LIES ROGERS RANGERS |
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Rogers Rangers Grave is on our property, across the road and up the hill from campHISTORY OF ROGERS RANGERSRogers' Rangers — commanded by Major
Robert Rogers — was an Independent Company of Rangers attached to the
British Army during the
French and Indian War. The unit was informally trained by
Robert Rogers as a rapidly deployable
Light
Infantry force tasked with
scouting and conducting
special operations against distant targets. Their military tactics were so
bold and effective that the unit became the chief scouting unit of British Crown
forces in the late 1750s. Later, several members of Rogers' Rangers became
influential leaders in the
American Revolutionary War and a large number of ex-rangers were present as
patriot militiamen at the
Battle of Concord Bridge.
ROGER'S RANGERSbiography:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/rogers/index.html Note: I have received information from a researcher that there is a common grave of some of Rogers' men near Granby, Vermont. Travel the road between East Burke and Guildhall, Vermont you will come to the town of Granby - in that immediate area take the dirt road North (maybe the road to the fire warden and is so marked). "About a half mile up you will see a square rock cairn encompassed by a split rail fence and marked "Rogers Rangers, Ambushed here (date). I believe these were members of a hunting party dispatched to find game for the near-starving Rangers. The site is on the way to the Connecticut River, about 20 miles from south east of Newport." -- Thanks to Neil Shee! Another note received about the location-- FROM TOWN HISTORIES
Major Robert Rogers - Revenge 1759 - History of Charlestown, NH OTHER OFF-SITE LINKS
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