The most famous ranger-and the father of covert warfare
As the 'age of sail' progressed the great nations of Europe
understood that the lands and wealth of the globe were within the
grasp of their imperial ambitions. Which nation would win most
became a race that, inevitably, would culminate in a struggle to
establish who could gain-and hold-most. The principal contestants
were France and Britain and their bitter, age-old rivalry would
lead to a final conflict in the middle years of the 18th
century-the Seven Years War, which would be fought on bloody fields
in Europe, Asia and significantly in the New World of the Americas.
There colonists of each nation struggled to build lives among the
indigenous Indian tribes of the eastern woodlands. Here was a war,
subject to the severest weather conditions, fought among deep
forests, on lakes and in huge tracts of unmapped wilderness.
Regular troops of both nations were engaged, together with militias
raised among local populations combined with the savage element of
Iroquois and Huron Indian allies. 'Cometh the moment, cometh the
man' and the man for that moment was Robert Rogers. This was not
the place for the formal battle lines of uniformed regulars. Here
the principal advantage lay in stealthily gained intelligence,
surprise and the hit and run tactics of the ambuscade. So the
'special forces' fighter was born and the men who shared his skills
were bonded together as units in the form of independent companies
of rangers who could melt into the forest, subsist on it, do their
silent work and reappear as silently. This is a biography of their
most famous and successful commander. Rogers was no two dimensional
hero, he was a man suited to his time and his war; tough,
resourceful, ruthless and allegedly dishonest and unscrupulous. His
successes were often marred by reverses of the most disastrous
kinds. His career spanned two wars and in the second of them whilst
he remained true to his allegiances the fact that he was on the
losing side contributed much to his downfall. This book, a record
of the life of a man whose influence on the nature of warfare to
the present day is immense, makes riveting reading for all those
interested in the French and Indian War and American War of
Independence.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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