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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam; First Paper Edition edition (April 26, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553384570
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553384574
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.3 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsA First-Class Biography
By Alexander Rose on May 30, 2009
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In my own book -- and I apologize for the self-serving plug, but it's pertinent -- Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring, I devoted part of a chapter to Robert Rogers, one of the most remarkable killing gentlemen of Colonial (and Revolutionary) America. I always, however, wanted to know more about this bewitching, wild creature, and so I'm glad that John Ross has undertaken the burden of excavating his life and times from the murk of the past.

Good, narrative-driven history-writing is tricky to pull off, but, having blazed through the book, I think Ross has done a sterling job introducing Rogers to a modern audience. Ross is particularly skilled at evoking the frightening nature of the wilderness and the unique exigencies of frontier fighting. The vast, unexplored backcountry was densely thicketed by forests, rumpled by towering mountain ranges, and watered by unbridgeable rivers -- and Rogers was master of it all. Small wonder his enemies (and friends) were terrified of him; small wonder that they (in Ross's words) "could not get their imagination around the man, this master of nature and humans who could lead unimpressionable New Englanders to the edge of death over and over."

Now, while I had once foolishly assumed that Rogers was merely a rough-hewn, if cunning, ranger with an eye for the main chance, I'm happy to admit that War on the Run set me straight.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsRogers Rocks, then Rogers Slides
By S. A. Cartwright on October 27, 2009
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I am acquainted with Lake George, and the terrain around Fort Ticonderoga. Robert Rogers is a familiar name, but I knew precious little about the rest of his career. This fascinating tale, covering his early life struggles in New Hampshire, to his continental Lewis & Clark-like ambitions, to his eventual post-Revolutionary War demise in London, provides a comprehensive, unabashedly adoring review of the father of the US Army Rangers. I was particularly impressed with the author's descriptions of Rogers' mid-winter sorties up and down a hazardous Lake George. Ross's topographical description of the Battle on Snowshoes is spot on. (I have lost many golf balls on the fourth hole precisely where the conflict hit its full stride.) Ross puts the reader into a true three-dimensional realm whereby we vividly feel the terrain, the weather, and the battle raging around us. The savagery of the times comes through from battles at Fort William Henry, Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Crown Point to the impressive raid on St. Francois and subsequent weeks of staggering retreat. Dismemberment, scalping, cannibalism, and other grotesquery shocks the modern reader, but interestingly proved valuable content for a nascent newspaper industry in colonial America. Indeed, Rogers' star was fully ascendant during the French & Indian wars, and during the global seven years war between Great Britain and France, Ross makes the case that no other soldier did more to tip the outcome in favor of the English. Through backwoods cunning, outdoors skill, Yankee daring, and true American enterprise, Robert Rogers rose from country bumpkin to the rank of British officer, a feat accomplished by no other, even George Washington.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsHighly Recommended
By T. Crocker on June 14, 2009
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This is a well researched and vividly written book about one of the most colorful and complex characters in colonial America. I highly recommend it. The author, apparently an outdoorsman as well as an historian, brings to bear insights on Rogers's accomplishments and presents a vastly entertaining and enlightening read in the tradition of Francis Parkman. This formative period of American history deserves much more attention, and Mr. Ross has done it justice with a book that every father should like to receive this Father's Day-- or any day.
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4.0 out of 5 starsVery Readable and Detailed
By Rick Mitchell VINE VOICE on July 24, 2009
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This is a very detailed biography about an American everyone knows a little about. Most of our knowledge comes from "Rogers' Rangers" and "Northwest Passage", the book or the movie. Mr. Ross fills in all the historical gaps.

The book, and Rogers' life, can be broken down into three phases: Rogers beginnings in New Hampshire and how he developed into an Indian fighter, the French and Indian War and his rather ignominious later years during the Amercian Revolution.

The first and last phases of the book were filled with revelations. The middle eventually got bogged down in the details. Every battle was recapped from supply to return to base. Perhaps this was because this part had the most material from which to work including Rogers' own written accounts.

Most importantly though, this is a very readable biography. Mr. Ross did well to put Rogers in perspective: he was one of the great heroes of his time (until the Revolution); he perfected a new brand of warfare merging European technology with Indian methodology; and, when he went to Europe, he was equal to Franklin as the best known American. He also picked the wrong side, albeit reluctantly, in the Revolution (from Americans' points of view) and lost all public relations advantages he had when he captured Nathan Hale.

Rogers is a rather forgotten colonial hero. Mr. Ross does well to bring him back into perspective. This biography is highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsVery good. Reading frequently on this time in (pre) American ...

Very good. Reading frequently on this time in (pre) American history, this story rates among the best I've read. Well done.

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Excellent book. The things this man and his men went through is insane. Goes to show that politicians should never be in charge of war planning.

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat story.

I enjoyed reading about the life of Robert Rogers. What a life. If only he'd been ordered to go to the Pacific from the Great Lakes.

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