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ROGERS, ROBERT (1727-1784?)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 457 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
ROGERS, ROBERT (1727-1784?) , American frontier soldier, was born of Irish parentage in 1727, probably at Methuen,
Massachusetts
 , whence his father,
James
  Rogers (often con-fused with
James
  Rogers, an early settler of Londonderry, N.H.), removed in 1739 to Starktown (now Dunbarton), New
Hampshire
 . During the Seven Years' War he raised and commanded a force of militia, known as Rogers' Rangers, which won a wide reputation for its courage and endurance in the
campaigns
  about Lake George. He took
part
  in Wolfe's expedition against
Quebec
 , and on the 4th of October 1759 he destroyed an Abnaki Indian
village
  on the St Francis river near its mouth and killed about 200 of its inhabitants. After the Montreal campaign of 176o, in which he served, he was sent by General
Amherst
  to take possession of the north-western posts, occupied
Detroit
  on the 29th of November, and later returned to the
east
 . In 1763, during the Pontiac uprising, he accom-


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