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Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces,
Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green
provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on
"impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff
of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish
immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and
deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world
required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates
Rogers's life and his spectacular battles with breathtaking
immediacy and meticulous accuracy, but brings a new and provocative
perspective on Rogers's unique vision of a unified continent, one
that would influence Thomas Jefferson and inspire the Lewis and
Clark expedition. Rogers's principles of unconventional war-making
would lay the groundwork for the colonial strategy later used in
the War of Independence--and prove so compelling that army rangers
still study them today. Robert Rogers, a backwoods founding father,
was heroic, admirable, brutal, canny, ambitious, duplicitous,
visionary, and much more--like America itself.
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
Contents: What Art Thou, Angelo?; The Final Comedy Of Lemuel
Gulliver; The Beggar's Opera By Bertrand H. Bronson; Of Time,
Personality And The Author By B. H. Lehman; The Solemn Romantics By
J. R. Caldwell; And Dickens And Daumier By Gordon McKenzie.
Contents: What Art Thou, Angelo?; The Final Comedy Of Lemuel
Gulliver; The Beggar's Opera By Bertrand H. Bronson; Of Time,
Personality And The Author By B. H. Lehman; The Solemn Romantics By
J. R. Caldwell; And Dickens And Daumier By Gordon McKenzie.
Contents: What Art Thou, Angelo?; The Final Comedy Of Lemuel
Gulliver; The Beggar's Opera By Bertrand H. Bronson; Of Time,
Personality And The Author By B. H. Lehman; The Solemn Romantics By
J. R. Caldwell; And Dickens And Daumier By Gordon McKenzie.
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