Scalp Hunter

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"Scalp Hunter" is a book by Alan D. Gaff that provides an exhaustive examination of Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers during the 1750s. It offers a comprehensive account of the brutal tactics employed by Rogers and his men, including scalping and the murder of unarmed prisoners. The book is noted for its firsthand accounts from the Rangers and their officers, providing a fresh perspective on the events of that era. It aims to challenge the traditional portrayal of Rogers as an icon of American history and includes much new information that was previously unavailable. 

Fort Ticonderoga Tailoring our 1759 Portrayal: A Ranger's Coat

 

Prince August 40mm

 

NEW Seven Years War release: America - 6 Rogers' Rangers 40mm scale semi-flat figures can be cast from these new rubber moulds. These have interchangeable heads and accessories. Suitable for low temperature Tin alloys.

https://shop.princeaugust.ie/american-moulds/

The Conspiracy of Pontiac by Francis Parkman Jr - Audiobook ( Part 1/3 )

 This book though now out of date now was the definitive account for 100 years. Still a good read.

Francis Parkman - Wikipedia

MI Past and Present 1991 G Embleton and P Haythornthwaite's article British Infantry of the Seven Years War

 This was very influential in the 90s. A lot of the activity from 30 years ago was with these pieces.

Part 2 here M I Past Present 1991 37. : SKORPIO : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Part 3 here M I Past Present 1991 39. : SKORPIO : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

From Helion - Scalphunter

 

''We've just received this fantastic cover artwork by the very talented Christa Hook for Alan Gaff's forthcoming book 'Scalp Hunter' on Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers during the Seven Years War. You can register your interest in the book here:''

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Major Robert Rogers is an icon in American history, but does not deserve that status. Scalp Hunter provides the first exhaustive examination of Rogers and his Rangers. This is the most complete telling of the wartime Ranger's saga, told by the Rangers themselves, their officers of all ranks, including generals, and it is not a modern interpretation by writers lacking a military background. Warfare in New York Province during the 1750s was brutal. American editors praised British and Colonial troops, while depicting French and Indian enemies as blood-thirsty barbarians. Robert Rogers would organize a corps of woodsmen whose assignment was to scout the wilderness to frustrate the enemy and provide important intelligence. Rogers and his Rangers quickly descended into cold-blooded savagery, scalping wounded and deceased foes for bounties while killing unarmed prisoners in cold blood. During his famous raid to St Francis in 1759, Major Rogers and his force ruthlessly murdered women and children against specific orders from their commanding general. When Rogers published his heavily-edited Journals in 1765, he intentionally neglected to mention these atrocities.

Scalp Hunter provides the first in-depth account of Rogers and men who served under him, including much new information unavailable previously. Rogers, his Rangers, and soldiers who served beside them relate fresh information in their own words. Over the last 250 years, Major Robert Rogers has become an icon alongside such frontiersmen as Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, Davy Crockett, and Kit Carson. Scalp Hunter will help remove Robert Rogers from that pantheon.

A cap for a Ranger 1750s by M. Brenckle Hatter

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Detail: "A View of the Lines at Lake George, 1759" by Thomas Davies. Fort Ticonderoga Collection.

Northwest Passage (1940) battle scene

 The raid on St. Francis. I thought this set was well made. Not so the costumes. 

Ranger by Ralph Mitchard

My attempt to depict a Ranger. 
 

UK Rangers and 60th. New France Old England. Avoncroft recently.

 

White Devil Stephen Brumwell

 

Just ordered this from the library. Anybody read it?

In North America's first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England-both in alliance with Native American tribes-fought each other in a series of bloody battles and terrifying raids. No confrontation was more brutal and notorious than the massacre of the British garrison of Fort William Henry- an incident memorably depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans . That atrocity stoked calls for revenge, and the tough young Major Robert Rogers and his "Rangers" were ordered north into enemy territory to take it. On the morning of October 4, 1759, they surprised the Abenaki Indian village of St. Francis, slaughtering its sleeping inhabitants without mercy. When the raiders returned to safety, they were hailed as heroes by the colonists, and their leader was immortalized as "the brave Major Rogers." But the Abenakis remembered Rogers differently: To them he was Wobomagonda- "White Devil."

New Rangers book

 This looks interesting. 

Northward Ho! The Making of Northwest Passage Movie

 

Northwest Passage (1940) trailer

 This movie is pretty outdated but still of interest for its sets and scenery. Costumes are bad. I have the novel it is based on which is from 1937. Pretty grisly.  Trailer here

You can buy it on DVD cheaply i just checked

There was a tv series spin off that is on DVD

Sainte-Thérèse Raid 1760

 The Sainte-Thérèse Raid was a military raid on the town of Sainte-Thérèse in French Canada conducted by British elite forces known as Rogers' Rangers that took place during the French and Indian War from 3 to 18 June 1760. Led by Robert Rogers the raid was a pre-emptive strike ordered by Major General Jeffery Amherst as a prelude to his three pronged attack on Montreal the following month.

LOD Enterprises 1/32 Rogers Rangers

 These are just out. Resin

.https://lodtoysoldiers.com

1/32 Armies in Plastic Rogers Ranger

I haven't done any painting for a while and I am not the best painter but posting this to promote the AIP  F&I range which is decent. 
 

58th Foot Quebec by Alix Baker

 

Read about the 58th at Kronoskaf. 

Crann Tara Rangers

 

These look good. Read about them here

Moses Hazen in the Seven Years War

Moses Hazen was in charge of the Rangers at Sainte-Foy and was severely wounded in the thigh. Here's the Seven Years War biographical details from the Canadian dictionary of National Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hazen_moses_5E.html
Moses Hazen enlisted in an American colonial unit in 1755 and, according to the historian Francis Parkman, served that year under Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Monckton* at Fort Beauséjour (near Sackville, N.B.). In 1756 he was at Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake George, N.Y.). Out of the army the following year, he shipped to Halifax provisions and supplies for the projected British attack on Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). On 7 April 1758 he was commissioned first lieutenant in John McCurdy’s company of Major Robert Rogers*’s rangers, and he served under Brigadier-General James Wolfe* at the capture of Louisbourg. Wintering at Fort Frederick (Saint John, N.B.), and having succeeded in January 1759 to command of McCurdy’s company, Hazen led it the following month on a raid to Sainte-Anne-du-Pays-Bas (Fredericton, N.B.), burning the settlement and taking prisoners, among them Joseph Godin*, dit Bellefontaine, dit Beauséjour, who had been a thorn in the British side; the raid earned Hazen a captaincy.

In 1759 Hazen’s company was included in the expedition to Quebec, and he transferred to that front Rogers’s form of brutal partisan warfare, boldly volunteering himself and his men for numerous expeditions into the countryside around Quebec. He was on one such operation when the battle of the Plains of Abraham was fought on 13 September. As the British waited out the winter of 1759–60 within the walls of Quebec, Hazen’s daring sorties impressed Brigadier-General James Murray*. Badly wounded in the thigh at the battle of Sainte-Foy in April 1760, Hazen was eventually obliged to give up his ranger company. On 21 Feb. 1761, with the recommendation of Murray, who attributed to him “so much still Bravery and good Conduct as would Justly Entitle him to Every military Reward he Could ask or Demand,” Hazen was allowed to purchase, for 800 guineas, a lieutenant’s commission in the 44th Foot. From 1761 to 1763 his regiment performed garrison duty at Montreal, and when it was reduced to nine companies in 1763 he retired on half pay.