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A likeness of Sgt. Jacob Dittrick, in Butler's Rangers uniform, by Canadian artist, Garth Dittrick. The company commanders of Butler's Rangers were: Captain Andrew Bradt; Captain Walter Butler, John Butler's son, killed in action in 1781; Captain William Caldwell, victor at the Battle of Sandusky and the Battle of Blue Licks; Captain George Dame
Uniform of Butler's Rangers. John Butler returned to service, as a Loyalist, when the American Revolution turned to war in 1775. In May 1775, he left for Canada in the company of Daniel Claus, Walter Butler, Hon Yost Schuyler and Joseph Brant, a Mohawk leader. On July 7, they reached Fort Oswego and in August, Montreal.
Sir John Johnson was not a General in 1777. He was a Colonel; the men who formed the first company were mainly from the Indian Department; the Rangers were not increased to 10 companies until 1781; the Rangers did not burn Wheeling; and the original Rangers barracks were torn down when Fort George was connstructed in 1800.
Butler's Barracks was the home of Loyalist military officer John Butler (1728–1796), in what was then Newark, Upper Canada; present day Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Butler is most famous for leading an irregular military unit known as Butler's Rangers on the northern frontier during the American Revolutionary War .
Captain Peter Hare (11 May 1748 — 6 April 1834) was a company officer in Butler's Rangers, a militia unit during the American Revolutionary War, and British Loyalist. [1] After the war ended Hare emigrated and settled with his family in Lincoln County, Ontario where he farmed until his death in 1834.
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As a result, 150 men from the Loyalist Butler's Rangers unit under the command of Captain William Caldwell and approximately 1,100 Indigenous warriors led by British Indian Department officials Alexander McKee, Simon Girty, and Matthew Elliott set out to attack Wheeling, on the upper Ohio River. This was one of the largest forces sent against ...