Description: How did the unschooled son of improvished immigrant farmers forever change the way men fought war? Historian John F. Ross reveals all in this fine military history of Robert Rogers, an American colonial frontiersman who fought in the French and Indian War as well as the American Revolution, and who wrote the first North American war manual still taught to today. "John Ross succeeds with War on the Run, a lively, evocative and at times moving biography" (The Wall Street Journal). Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates Rogers's life and his spectacular battles with breathtaking immediacy and meticulous accuracy, but brings a new and provocative perspective on Rogers's unique vision of a unified continent, one that would influence Thomas Jefferson and inspire the Lewis and Clark expedition. Rogers's principles of unconventional war-making would lay the groundwork for the colonial strategy later used in the War of Independence-and prove so compelling that army rangers still study them today. Robert Rogers, a backwoods founding father, was heroic, admirable, brutal, canny, ambitious, duplicitous, visionary, and much more-like America itself.
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EAN: 9780553384574
UPC: 9780553384574
ISBN: 9780553384574
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Book Title: War on the Run : the Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
Number of Pages: 592 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2011
Topic: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Military / Strategy, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Military / United States, Military
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 15 oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: John F. Ross
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
