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S ROGERS

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROGERS  . 457 panied the See also:relief expedition under See also:James See also:Dalyell to See also:Detroit and took See also:part in the See also:battle of Bloody See also:Bridge on the 31st of See also:July (see See also:PONTIAC) . Soon after this he went to See also:England, and in 1765 published in See also:London a Concise See also:Account of See also:North . See also:America, containing a Description of the Several See also:British Colonies . . . also an Account of the Several Nations and Tribes of See also:Indians (new edition, See also:Albany, 1883) . In 1766-68 he was commandant of Michilimackinac . He spent the next few years in England, and after 1772 was in the service of the See also:dey of See also:Algiers . At the beginning of the See also:War of See also:Independence he returned to America, and in spite of his protestations of patriotism was considered by See also:Washington and others a Loyalist See also:spy . He was arrested by agents of See also:Congress, but was paroled . His re-See also:arrest he considered a See also:release from his See also:parole . He then openly joined the British, and under a See also:commission from See also:General See also:Howe organized a See also:regiment of See also:Loyalists which was known as the See also:Queen's Rangers, and which after his return to England in 1776 was commanded by Capt . See also:John G .

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Simcoe . In 1779 he was commissioned to raise a regiment to be called the See also:King's Rangers, and he returned for a See also:short See also:time to America; but the command of the Rangers, which soon became a part of the See also:garrison of St John's, See also:Quebec, was taken by his See also:brother James (d . 1792), who had formerly served under See also:Robert . See also:Rogers died in London probably in 1784 . In addition to the Concise Account of North America, he published his See also:Journals (London, 1765), and is supposed to have written, at least in part, Ponteach, or the Savages of America, a Tragedy (London, 1766) . See also his " See also:Journal " in the See also:Diary of the See also:Siege of Detroit in the War with Pontiac (Albany, 186o; new edition, 1883), edited by F . B . Hough; and See also:Francis See also:Parkman, Montcalm and See also:Wolfe (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1884) .

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