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

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