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Saint Francis (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): entry rogers-robert
Rogers, Robert 1727-1800
Military officer; born in Dunbarton, N. H., in 1727.
Raising a corps of rangers, he was commissioned a major, and he and his men became renowned for their exploits during the French and Indian War. In 1759 he destroyed the Indian village of St. Francis, and in 1760 was sent by General Amherst to take possession of Detroit and other Western posts ceded to the English by the French.
Going to England, he there published his journal, which he presented to the King, who, in 1765, made him governor of Michilimackinac (Mackinaw); but he was shortly afterwards sent to Montreal, in irons, to be tried on a charge of a design to plunder the fort and join the French.
He was acquitted, went to England, was presented to the King, and was soon afterwards imprisoned for debt.
Released, he went to Algiers and fought in two battles for the Dey. Returning to America, he joined the royalists on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, and raised the famous corps know
Algiers (Algeria) (search for this): entry rogers-robert
Montreal (Canada) (search for this): entry rogers-robert
Dunbarton, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): entry rogers-robert
Rogers, Robert 1727-1800
Military officer; born in Dunbarton, N. H., in 1727.
Raising a corps of rangers, he was commissioned a major, and he and his men became renowned for their exploits during the French and Indian War. In 1759 he destroyed the Indian village of St. Francis, and in 1760 was sent by General Amherst to take possession of Detroit and other Western posts ceded to the English by the French.
Going to England, he there published his journal, which he presented to the King, who, in 1765, made him governor of Michilimackinac (Mackinaw); but he was shortly afterwards sent to Montreal, in irons, to be tried on a charge of a design to plunder the fort and join the French.
He was acquitted, went to England, was presented to the King, and was soon afterwards imprisoned for debt.
Released, he went to Algiers and fought in two battles for the Dey. Returning to America, he joined the royalists on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, and raised the famous corps known
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry rogers-robert
United States (United States) (search for this): entry rogers-robert
Jeffrey Amherst (search for this): entry rogers-robert
Rogers, Robert 1727-1800
Military officer; born in Dunbarton, N. H., in 1727.
Raising a corps of rangers, he was commissioned a major, and he and his men became renowned for their exploits during the French and Indian War. In 1759 he destroyed the Indian village of St. Francis, and in 1760 was sent by General Amherst to take possession of Detroit and other Western posts ceded to the English by the French.
Going to England, he there published his journal, which he presented to the King, who, in 1765, made him governor of Michilimackinac (Mackinaw); but he was shortly afterwards sent to Montreal, in irons, to be tried on a charge of a design to plunder the fort and join the French.
He was acquitted, went to England, was presented to the King, and was soon afterwards imprisoned for debt.
Released, he went to Algiers and fought in two battles for the Dey. Returning to America, he joined the royalists on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, and raised the famous corps know
Robert Rogers (search for this): entry rogers-robert
Rogers, Robert 1727-1800
Military officer; born in Dunbarton, N. H., in 1727.
Raising a corps of rangers, he was commissioned a major, and he and his men became renowned for their exploits during the French and Indian War. In 1759 he destroyed the Indian village of St. Francis, and in 1760 was sent by General Amherst to take possession of Detroit and other Western posts ceded to the English by the French.
Going to England, he there published his journal, which he presented to the King, sign to plunder the fort and join the French.
He was acquitted, went to England, was presented to the King, and was soon afterwards imprisoned for debt.
Released, he went to Algiers and fought in two battles for the Dey. Returning to America, he joined the royalists on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, and raised the famous corps known as the Queen's Rangers.
Rogers published two works on the French and Indian War, as well as two or three other books.
He died in England, about 1800.
1760 AD (search for this): entry rogers-robert
Rogers, Robert 1727-1800
Military officer; born in Dunbarton, N. H., in 1727.
Raising a corps of rangers, he was commissioned a major, and he and his men became renowned for their exploits during the French and Indian War. In 1759 he destroyed the Indian village of St. Francis, and in 1760 was sent by General Amherst to take possession of Detroit and other Western posts ceded to the English by the French.
Going to England, he there published his journal, which he presented to the King, who, in 1765, made him governor of Michilimackinac (Mackinaw); but he was shortly afterwards sent to Montreal, in irons, to be tried on a charge of a design to plunder the fort and join the French.
He was acquitted, went to England, was presented to the King, and was soon afterwards imprisoned for debt.
Released, he went to Algiers and fought in two battles for the Dey. Returning to America, he joined the royalists on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, and raised the famous corps known
1759 AD (search for this): entry rogers-robert
Rogers, Robert 1727-1800
Military officer; born in Dunbarton, N. H., in 1727.
Raising a corps of rangers, he was commissioned a major, and he and his men became renowned for their exploits during the French and Indian War. In 1759 he destroyed the Indian village of St. Francis, and in 1760 was sent by General Amherst to take possession of Detroit and other Western posts ceded to the English by the French.
Going to England, he there published his journal, which he presented to the King, who, in 1765, made him governor of Michilimackinac (Mackinaw); but he was shortly afterwards sent to Montreal, in irons, to be tried on a charge of a design to plunder the fort and join the French.
He was acquitted, went to England, was presented to the King, and was soon afterwards imprisoned for debt.
Released, he went to Algiers and fought in two battles for the Dey. Returning to America, he joined the royalists on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, and raised the famous corps known