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See also:ROGERS, S . 457
panied the See also:relief expedition under See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Dalyell to See also:Detroit and took See also:part in the See also:battle of Bloody See also:Bridge on the 31st of See also:July (see See also:PONTIAC). Soon after this he went to See also:England, and in 1765 published in See also:London a Concise See also:Account of See also:North. See also:America, containing a Description of the Several See also:British Colonies . . . also an Account of the Several Nations and Tribes of See also:Indians (new edition, See also:Albany, 1883). In 1766-68 he was commandant of Michilimackinac. He spent the next few years in England, and after 1772 was in the service of the See also:dey of See also:Algiers. At the beginning of the See also:War of See also:Independence he returned to America, and in spite of his protestations of patriotism was considered by See also:Washington and others a Loyalist See also:spy. He was arrested by agents of See also:Congress, but was paroled. His re-See also:arrest he considered a See also:release from his See also:parole. He then openly joined the British, and under a See also:commission from See also:General See also:Howe organized a See also:regiment of See also:Loyalists which was known as the See also:Queen's Rangers, and which after his return to England in 1776 was commanded by Capt. See also:John G. See also:Simcoe. In 1779 he was commissioned to raise a regiment to be called the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Rangers, and he returned for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to America; but the command of the Rangers, which soon became a part of the See also:garrison of St John's, See also:Quebec, was taken by his See also:brother James (d. 1792), who had formerly served under See also:Robert. Rogers died in London probably in 1784.
In addition to the Concise Account of North America, he published his See also:Journals (London, 1765), and is supposed to have written, at least in part, Ponteach, or the Savages of America, a Tragedy (London, 1766). See also his " See also:Journal " in the See also:Diary of the See also:Siege of Detroit in the War with Pontiac (Albany, 186o; new edition, 1883), edited by F. B. Hough; and See also:Francis See also:Parkman, Montcalm and See also:Wolfe (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1884).
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