"Pick your targets, lads. Make them count!" Patrick yelled as he squeezed The trigger on his rifle and began to reload. "We're going to have a lot of company soon. Be ready to fall back." The Rangers followed their training, one man firing while the other covered. Jacob moved and reacted automatically, though he felt a growing anger as he watched the Provincials break and run instead of fighting.As the flood became a ride of running Provincial soldiers, Patrick gave the order to break away. One Ranger would run back while his partner fired, then he would turn and cover his partner. Their…mehr
"Pick your targets, lads. Make them count!" Patrick yelled as he squeezed The trigger on his rifle and began to reload. "We're going to have a lot of company soon. Be ready to fall back." The Rangers followed their training, one man firing while the other covered. Jacob moved and reacted automatically, though he felt a growing anger as he watched the Provincials break and run instead of fighting.As the flood became a ride of running Provincial soldiers, Patrick gave the order to break away. One Ranger would run back while his partner fired, then he would turn and cover his partner. Their accurace fire was effective, but it was not enough to turn the tide.Here is the opening tale of Ranger Jacob Clarke, fighting alongside his fellow Rangers of Captain Robert RopersCompany, fighting as green-clad wraiths in the thick northern forests and mountains of New York, attempting to stem the French tide as they poured through the Champlain Valley, their sights set on Albany. Will the actions of the Rangers, alongside the Provincials und Red-coated regulars of the British Army be enough to stop the French and their Indian Allies?Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Erick W. Nason grew up in Glens Falls in upstate New York, the heart of Rogers Rangers country, halfway between Fort Edward, Fort William Henry, Fort Ticonderoga, and other battlefields in between. He currently lives with his wife Karin in Sumter, South Carolina, near where General Sumter is buried. "I am retired Army Special Operations, served twenty years in both the Rangers and in Special Forces. I am a military historian working to preserve the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution by supporting the education program Liberty Live, Southern Campaign 1780, and Southern Battlefield Preservation Trust." A battle reenactor for over thirty years, he is also a presenter at the annual Francis Marion Symposium. The author is currently a government contractor managing search and rescue programs for U.S. Air Force Central Command and the Middle East.
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