Chronology
Chronology
1728-1731
Rogers’s father James and his family leave Ireland and arrive in the New World
November 1731
Robert Rogers born
Spring 1739
Family moves to Mountalona, New Hampshire frontier
March 1744
France declares war on Britain, starting King George’s War
April 1748
Family farm is burned to the ground by Abenaki raiding party
January 1755
Rogers arrested on charges of counterfeiting
April 1755
Rogers enlists 50 men into the New Hampshire militia and earns a captaincy
July 1755
General Braddock’s forces routed by French at the Monongahela
September 1755
Battle of Lake George. British outpost resists attack by well-trained French regulars
August 1757
Battle of Fort William Henry, major British fortress is sacked
October 1757
British Commander Loudoun asks Rogers to write down his rules of rangering
December 1757
Mutiny on Rogers’s Island
March 1758
Battle on Snowshoes, Rogers’s epic mid-winter fight against Jean-Baptiste Langy
July 1758
General Abercromby’s large force attack is fiercely repulsed by much smaller French army at Carillon
August 1758
Battle of Fort Anne
July 1759
Carillon falls to British, renamed Ticonderoga
September–
November 1759
Saint François Raid and starvation march home
September 1759
Battle of Plains of Abraham, Quebec City falls
November 1760
Fort Detroit Surrenders to Rogers
February 1763
Treaty of Paris signed, official end of Seven Year’s War (and its North American arm, the French and Indian War)
June 1761
Rogers marries Elizabeth Browne, daughter of Portsmouth reverend Arthur Browne
August 1761
Rogers in South Carolina for the Cherokee Wars
October 1762
1763-1764
Chief Pontiac spurs pan-Indian attack on Great Lakes forts
July 1763
British force sent to reinforce Fort Detroit are routed by Pontiac at Battle of Bloody Run, Rogers organizes retreat
1765
Publishes A Concise Account, The Journals of Robert Rogers, and America’s second play, “Ponteach, Or, the Savages of America”
August 1766
Rogers and Betsy arrive Fort Michilimackinac
December 1767
Rogers arrested at Michilimackinac on charges of treason
October 1768
Exonerated of charges of treason at court martial
February 1769
Betsy gives birth to their son, Arthur
June 1776
George Washington orders Rogers arrested
July 1776
Rogers escapes from prison and joins Howe’s army on Staten Island
September 1776
Rogers captures the American spy Nathan Hale on Long Island
May 1795
Rogers dies in London
