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Butler's Rangers (1777–1784) was a Loyalist provincial military unit of the American Revolutionary War, raised by American loyalist John Butler. Most members of the regiment were Loyalists from upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania .
Butler successfully coordinated the ambush of rebel militia and Oneida warriors at the Battle of Oriskany. As a result he was commissioned a Major and given authority to raise his own regiment, which became known as Butler's Rangers, initially with a strength of eight companies. He returned to Fort Niagara, and completed recruiting the first ...
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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Butler's Pierre Brooks (21) shoots over Xavier's Desmond Claude (1) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the first round of the Big East basketball tournament Wednesday ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... An Annotated Nominal Roll of Butler's Rangers, 1777-1784, with Documentary Sources (St Catharines, 2004).
Mar 12, 2024; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; New York Rangers left wing Chris Kreider (20) gets the shot past Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Brent Burns (8) during the second period at PNC Arena.
He was assigned to Butler's Rangers in 1778 and he became a captain in 1784 [2] and retired that same year. [1] Pawling settled in Grantham Township in the Niagara region in 1783. He served on the land board of the Nassau District and Lincoln County. He was appointed to the Court of Common Pleas in 1788 and became a justice of the peace the ...