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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Massachusetts , he fought in King George's War , the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War .
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 Seven Years' War (French and Indian War). The unit was quickly adopted into the New England Colonies army as an independent ranger company.
After Colonel Robert Rogers left the Queen's Rangers in 1777 he went to Nova Scotia. He obtained approval from General Sir Henry Clinton to raise the King's Rangers in 1779. [ 1 ] The formation of the Rangers was authorized to contain two battalions, each divided into 10 companies.
Charles Rogers joined the US Army through the Army ROTC program at West Virginia State College (now West Virginia State University), Institute, West Virginia, in 1952, and by 1968 was serving as a lieutenant colonel in command of 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Hill: Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Clifford C. Hills: Marine Corps Platoon Sergeant Robert J. Hilsky: Marine Corps Private John R. Himelrick: Marine Corps Private First Class Raymond K. Hine † Army Air Forces First Lieutenant Solomon Islands April 18, 1943 Harold L. Hiner: Marine Corps Second Lieutenant James A ...
General Vandegrift, who was an admirer of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Rogers, who had organized and trained raider units skilled in close combat and reconnaissance behind enemy lines during the French and Indian War, approved the idea and Whaling began with the organization of scout-sniper detachment and training of specially selected groups ...
Rogers was born to James and Mary Rogers in Ireland, and they immigrated to the Province of Massachusetts Bay around 1729. Robert Rogers was born in 1731 and a third brother Richard in 1733. [1] During the French and Indian War, he served in Rogers' Rangers, a provincial Ranger Corps raised by his brother Robert Rogers.
One of their children, Gordon Byrom Rogers Jr. (born October 21, 1934) graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1957. The younger Rogers was a career Army officer who served in the Vietnam War and attained the rank of brigadier general. [47] [48] [49] In 1964, Rogers married Mildred Montague Kimball at her ranch in Sedalia, Colorado ...