Benjamin Church (ranger)
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Colonel Benjamin Church was a military officer and politician from the New England Colonies who is best known for his role in innovative military tactics notably developing unconventional warfare. He
A posthumous illustration of Church; the tricorne is inaccurate.
1772 portrait of Metacomet
John Alderman and Church next to Metacomet's corpse
Engraved portrait by Paul Revere that was believed to be of Church. Yale University Art Gallery. The portrait has been identified as English poet Charles Churchill.
Rogers' Rangers
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Rogers' Rangers was a company of soldiers from the Province of New Hampshire raised by Major Robert Rogers and attached to the British Army during the French and Indian War. The unit was quickly adopt
Benjamin Church (ranger)
…Dr. Church, thought to have been a staunch Whig, was later arrested by General George Washington as a suspected spy for British General Thomas Gage. Rogers Rangers and Gorham's Rangers were militia developed according to the tradition begun by Church. In 1992, in honor of his innovative tactical methods, Church…
Two soldiers of the unit conferring with a British Army sergeant in New York in 1760
Robert Rogers, the founding leader and namesake of Rogers' Rangers in a 1776 painting