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Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ROGERSS RANGERS. 251
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This timely assist-ance enabled them to reachFort Edward in safety.One fine morning in o the following August, Rog-ers and Israel Putnam,a provincial officer fromConnecticut, with five hun-dred men, were in the vicinity of Fort Anne—a postabout midway between Ticonderoga and Fort Edward—watching the motions of the enemy. The French, underthe celebrated partisan Marin, were also on the lookoutfor them, and only a mile and a half distant. In a spirit of false emulation, and in disregard of that prime virtue ofthe Ranger—caution in the presence of an enemy—Rogers, before march-ing, practised firing at a mark with a British officer. The sound reachedthe ears of the vigilant Marin, who hastily formed an ambuscade at thepoint where the Rangers soon afterwards emerged from a dense thicketinto the open woods. Putnam was in front, Captain Dalzell, with someBritish regulars, was in the centre, while Rogers brought up the rear. Just as Putnam entered the forest the enemy rose, and with d

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