Ranger Raid - 9780811739733

Ranger RaidThe Legendary Robert Rogers and His Most Famous Frontier Battle\nAuthor(s): Phillip Thomas Tucker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stackpole Books, United States\nImprint: Stackpole Books\nISBN-13: 9780811739733, 978-0811739733\nSynopsis\nA figure of legendary, almost mythic proportions, Robert Rogers is widely considered the father of [url] Army Rangers. He gained his fame during the French and Indian War, fighting in the American and Canadian wilderness for the British colonies against the French and Indians, but a decade later, during the Revolution, he was almost a man without a country. George Washington didnt trust himindeed, he had Rogers arrestednor did the British, who, desperate, gave him a command anyway, and Rogers was pivotal in arresting and executing American spy Nathan Hale. Rogers story begins in the French and Indian War.\n\nRanger Raid digs deep into Rogers most controversial battle: the raid on St. Francis in Canada during the French and Indian War. On Oct.