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Title: A battle fought on snow shoes : Rogers' Rock, Lake George, March 13, 1758
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rogers, Mary Cochrane
Subjects: Rogers, Robert, 1731-1795 Rogers' Rangers United States -- History French and Indian war, 1755-1763 Regimental histories Rogers' Rangers
Publisher: Derry, N.H., The author
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ination, but were so warmlyreceived that they were put to rout the thirdtime. Finding the Rogers party so much in-ferior to themselves in number, the enemy againrallied and renewed the fight with vigor forsome time. A body of two hundred Indianswere now discovered going up the mountain onthe right in order to gain the rear of the Rangers.Lieutenant Phillips with eighteen men gainedthe first possession and beat them back. Lieu-tenant Crafton with fifteen men stopped theFrench on the left from gaining the other partof the mountain. Two gentlemen volunteershastened up and supported him with greatbravery. The enemy now pushed so closely onthe front that the combatants were often nottwenty yards apart, and sometimes were mixedtogether. Lieutenant Phillips, surrounded bythree hundred Indians, surrendered under prom-ise of good quarter, but a few minutes later heand his whole party were tied to trees andhacked to death in a most barbarous manner.The savages maddened, it is said, by the sight
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LAKE GEORGE of a scalp they found in the breast of a manshunting frock, revenged themselves on theirvictims by holding up their scalps. The Rangerswere now broken and put to flight, each man forhimself, while the Indians, closely pursuing, tookseveral prisoners. My great-great-grandfather in his modestnarrative does not mention his own hairbreadthescape. The Rangers, when put to flight, re-treated in the best manner possible. Rogers wassingled out by the French; the Indians, closelypursuing, ran him up the steep mountain thenknown as Bald Mountain, since Rogers Rock, toits face, and there on the brow of the precipicehe threw away his knapsack and clothes togetherwith his commission. There was but one chancefor his life, and death was preferable to captureand torture by the savages. Slowly the sun is setting over the mountaintops, gilding the lake below, as down the face ofthe precipitous rock for more than a thousandfeet he slides in his snow shoes to the frozen lakebelow, and there,

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