To Distress the French and Their Allies: Rogers' Rangers, 1755 1763

In the early days of the French and Indian War, the English Army suffered a series of devastating defeats, mostly at the hands of Canadian partisans and French-allied Indians who were masters of wilderness warfare. A corps of hardened frontiersmen, mostly from New England and including Mohegan Indians and African Americans—both freed and enslaved—was formed to learn to "fight in the Indian way" and take the war to the enemy.

Their exploits became legendary.

To Distress the French and Their Al...