ROBERT ROGERS was born at Dumbarton, N. H., 1727, died in London
about 1798. During the French and Indian War he commanded the
celebrated "Rogers Rangers," and participated in the siege of Detroit
against Pontiac and the French. Rogers' Slide at Lake George is named
after him. He went to London about 1764, and was appointed governor
of Michilimackinac in 1765. He afterwards went to Algiers and fought
under the Dey. He returned to America in 1775, and professed to be in
sympathy with the patriots, but Washington ordered his arrest. He
then threw off the mask of friendship, and raised a company of
Royalists called "The Queen's Rangers." He went back to England, and
his subsequent history is unknown. His best known works are his
_Journal of the French and Indian War_, London, 1765; and _A Concise
Account of North America_, London, 1765.
PONTEACH; OR, THE SAVAGES OF AMERICA. A Tragedy. London: Printed for
the author, 1766. 8vo, pp. 110.