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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.

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This vivid and deeply engaging book tells the story of Robert Rogers, who with his small force of Rangers developed a new American way....Rogers himself appears as a character of high complexity. Distrusted by leaders on all sides, his loyalty was to the land itself. His writings taught British settlers to think of their backcountry as a continental frontier, and his stage play Ponteach portrayed American Indians with sympathy and respect. John F. Ross has given us a memorable portrait of an authentic American-antihero, and an historical figure of high importance. --David Hackett Fischer, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Washington's Crossing <br> <br> This is an epic tale of America's first great war, told with novelistic flair, and bringing to life the greatest American military leader that most readers have never encountered until now. --Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation <br> There are good books and extraordi

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