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France 1795
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Ireland 1803
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Persian Gulf 1809
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Illyria 1813-1814
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Germany 1813
[edit]A second British expeditionary corps was dispatched to Northern Germany in 1813 during the War of the Sixth Coalition, with the the intention to secure the strategically important Baltic Ports. The corps was placed under the command of Major-General Samuel Gibbs who established his headquarters at Stralsund. The expeditionary corps consisted of six infantry battalions, as well as available elements of the King's German Legion and Royal Horse Artillery. During the campaign in Germany, units of the KGL cavalry and Royal Horse Artillery participated successfully in the actions at Göhrde, Leipzig and Sehested.
Holland 1813-1814
[edit]In December 1813, the British government sent an expeditionary corps to Holland under Sir Thomas Graham to campaign alongside a Prussian army with the intention of pushing the French army from Flanders. Graham's corps participated successfully in the attacks on Hoogstraten and Antwerp. An attempt to capture the fortress of Bergen op Zoom was then made by Graham shortly before the conclusion of the war. The attack, on 8 March 1814, failed and the British were repelled, with heavy losses.[1]
Italy 1814
[edit]In January 1814 a British expeditionary force set out from the island of Scilly under the command of Lord William Bentinck. Sicily had been a British Mediterranean base since it's conquest in 1806. Bentinck's corps initially landed in Livorno and an armistice was negotiated with Joachim Murat which brought the Kingdom of Naples to the side of the Coalition in return for a guarantee of it's continued existence. Bentinck then issued a proclamation to the rest of Italy announcing the arrival of British troops and asking the populace to submit peacefully to the Allies. With his corps reinforced by Italian and Sicilian regiments Bentinck advanced north to Genoa and in April 1814 invested the city in a siege. The city was surrendered to Bentinck after five days of Siege and bombardment. British troops entered the city on 18th April and Bentinck negotiated the restoration of the ancient Republic of Genoa. Following which Lord Bentinck dispatched a force to the nearby island of Corsica which was occupied by British troops until the end of the war.
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Robert Rogers | |
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 A 1776 coloured mezzotint of Rogers | |
| Nickname(s) | Wobomagonda ("White Devil")[4] |
| Born | 7 November 1731 Methuen, Massachusetts |
| Died | 18 May 1795 (aged 63) London, England |
| Allegiance | British Crown |
| Service | New Hampshire Militia (1746–1748) British Army (1755–1777, 1779) |
| Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel (Provincial Army) Major (British Army) |
| Unit | Rogers' Rangers South Carolina Independent Companies New York Independent Companies Queen's Rangers King's Rangers |
| Known for | Rules of Ranging |
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[edit]Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Massachusetts, he served in King George's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. During the French and Indian War, Rogers raised and commanded the eponymous Rogers' Rangers, a colonial corps of soldiers specifically trained for scouting, skirmishing and irregular warfare.[5][6]
Rogers' formed perhaps the most famous and successful corps' of Rangers in service of the British crown. Although he was not always present, his corps' participated in every major action of the French and Indian War; Ticonderoga, Louisbourg, Quebec, and Montreal, and Rogers personally took possession of Detroit for the British crown. The standing orders he issued, the Rules of Ranging, have gone down in military history. Rogers skill as a military recruiter gained him rare approval in the British regular army for which he gained a commission as a Captain in 1757. Rogers' retired as a half-pay Major in the British Army and Lieutenant-Colonel in the American provincial army.
Largely mistrusted by both sides at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Rogers played only a minor military role, briefly acting as a recruiter and Ranger for the crown. He eventually returned to England after being forcibly removed from his command of the Queen's Rangers due to his increasingly poor health and state of mind.
A physically robust man for his time, Rogers is known to have escaped and evaded armed captivity multiple times throughout his life; that of the French military, British creditors and American Revolutionary authorities. The Ticonderoga Mountain side that Rogers' used to escape a French and Indian patrol in 1758 is still known as "Rogers' Slide".
Despite Rogers' great industry, sacrifice and success in the defence of the nascent American colonies and advancement of British arms in battle, he died in obscurity, poverty and debt in London in 1795.
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[edit]| Battle of Chicot River | |||||||
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| Part of the French and Indian War | |||||||
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| New France | Great Britain | ||||||
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| Captain Marin | Captain Robert Rogers | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 400 regulars, militia and Native allies | 700 Rangers and militia | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 23-100 killed or wounded (3 Native American warriors, ~20 French and Canadiens) | ~50 killed or wounded; 6 captured | ||||||
The Battle of Chicot River was a military engagement that took place on August 8, 1757, during the French and Indian War. It occurred near a ruined fort on the Chicot River, after Captain Marin of the French forces had marched for three days with a mixed force of approximately 400 French and Native American warriors.
As Marin approached within 2 kilometers of the old fort, his scouts had detected the movement of British forces and Marin quickly prepared an ambush. Unbeknownst to Marin, he was facing a detachment led by the British ranger officer Robert Rogers, who commanded around 700 men, primarily rangers and miltia.
The French initiated the ambush, but opened fire prematurely. The firefight lasted for approximately one hour, after which Marin was forced to retreat.
French losses included about 20 French and Canadien soldiers and 3 Native American warriors, though historian Francis Parkman estimated the total French casualties were around 100. The British suffered around 50 casualties and Marin's force succeeded in capturing six prisoners, including an officer from the Connecticut militia.
See also
[edit]- French and Indian War
- Robert Rogers (British Army officer)
- Native American involvement in the French and Indian War
References
[edit]- Parkman, Francis. *Montcalm and Wolfe*.
- Primary French colonial military records, 1757.
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[edit]| Battle of Sorel | |||||||
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| Great Britain | France | ||||||
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| James Murray | François-Charles de Bourlamaque | ||||||
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| ~600 (Grenadiers, Light Infantry and Rangers) | 2000 (regulars and miltia | ||||||
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| Unknown | Unknown (French forces dispersed; town burned) | ||||||
- ^ Bryant 1950, p. 86.
- ^ Roberts, pp. xvi–xxvii. See: Timelines of Napoleon & Wellington.
- ^ Fletcher (2005), pp. 32–34.
- ^ Brumwell, Stephen (2005). White Devil: a True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-30681-389-4.
- ^ Bahmanyar, Mir (2006). Shadow Warriors: A History of the US Army Rangers. Bloomsbury. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-84603-142-7.
- ^ Black, Robert (October 1984). "The Beginning of the American Ranger". Gung-Ho. pp. 20–22.