War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

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.

• Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers
• White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in Colonial America
• Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
• The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
• The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
• Some Thoughts on Scouts and Spies: Based upon the experiences of the author and historical observation
• Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
• The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America (P.S.)
• A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the End of the Year 1777
• Northwest Passage