Robert Rogers Character Traits

Robert Rogers was born in Methuen, Massachusetts on November 7th, 1731 to a family of immigrants from Ireland, James Rogers and Mary McFatridge Rogers (Anderson, 2005). Robert was in the middle of the pack among his 4 brothers and 2 sisters (Ross, 2009). When Rogers was 8 years old, James Rogers, always considering himself as a lucky man, uprooted his family and move north to the Great Meadow area of New Hampshire where James help founded a small settlement the call “Munterloney” (Ross, 2009). A unsettled area in New Hampshire, Robert spent most of his childhood in this large Indian Territory where he learned traits like carving splint brooms from the local Indians (Ross, 2009), a trait well known by children in the this outskirts towns of

The post was a large gathering place for local Indians that were there looking to trade their furs for goods yielded by the colonialist. Rogers grew fond of the Indians and their way of life. He studied how the Indians trapped their prey and moved through the woods with such ease and usually without notice to not only the animals they tracks but even grown men. As the rumors of war started to reach this area of New Hampshire, these new tracking trades would start to prove invaluable to the young Robert

A year later move under command of his good friend Ebenezer Eastman's Scouting Company defending the frontier of New Hampshire. In 1775 Rogers was asked to start recruiting and training men under Colonel John Winslow. The small group of men came to be known as Rogers’s Rangers. Rogers began training this group of militia men to in the ways of guerilla war fair. Looking at the way the current British infantry fought, Rogers trained his men to take cover and to separate in to single man groups when under fire in order to not allow a single bullet to kill two men. He men also fought with not only guns but hatchets that Rogers instructed them to use in close contact with the