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Robert Rogers (1731–1795)
Rogers, Robert. An American soldier and author; born at Dunbarton, NH, 1731; died in England in 1795. He commanded during the French and Indian War (1755–63) the celebrated corps known as “Rogers’s Rangers.” Later he published in England: ‘A Concise Account of North America’ (1765); ‘Journal of Major Robert Rogers’ (1765); and ‘Ponteach [Pontiac]; or, The Savages of America,’ a tragedy in blank verse, copies of which are now very rare. He also left in MS. ‘A Diary of the Siege of Detroit in the War with Pontiac,’ first published in 1860.