War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the

War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
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Hailed as the father of todayâ€™s elite special forces, Robert Rogers was not only a wilderness warrior but North Americaâ€™s first noteworthy playwright and authentic celebrity. In a riveting biography, John F. Ross reconstructs the extraordinary achievements of this fearless and inspiring leader whose exploits in the early New England wilderness read like those of an action hero and whose innovative principles of unconventional warfare are still used today.

They were a group of handpicked soldiers chosen for their backwoods savvy, courage, and endurance. Led by a young captain whose daring made him a hero on two continents, Rogersâ€™s Rangers earned a deadly fame among their most formidable French and Indian enemies for their ability to appear anywhere at any time, burst out of the forest with overwhelming force, and vanish just as quickly. This swift, elusive, intelligence-gathering strike force was the brainchild of Robert Rogers, a uniquely American kind of war maker capable of motivating a new breed of warrior.

The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Robert Rogers learned to survive in New Englandâ€™s dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. Marrying European technology to the stealth and adaptability he observed in native warriors, Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on â€œimpossibleâ€ missions that are still the stuff of soldiersâ€™ legend. Covering heartbreaking distances behind enemy lines, they traversed the wilderness in whaleboats and snowshoes, slept without fire or sufficient food in below-freezing temperatures, and endured hardships that would destroy ordinary men.

With their novel tactics and fierce esprit de corps, the Rangers laid the groundwork for the colonial strategy later used in the War of Independence. Never have the stakes of a continent hung in the hands of so few men. Rogers would eventually write two seminal books whose vision of a unified continent would influence Thomas Jefferson and inspire the Lewis and Clark expedition.

In War on the Run, John F. Ross vividly re-creates Rogersâ€™s life and his spectacular battles, having traveled over much of Rogersâ€™s campaign country. He presents with breathtaking immediacy and painstaking accuracy a man and an era whose enormous influence on America has been too little appreciated.
Country USA
Brand Bantam
Manufacturer Bantam
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2009-05-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780553804966

Country	USA
Brand	Bantam
Manufacturer	Bantam
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2009-05-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780553804966

War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

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