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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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the upper end of thebay we had left. For this reason, together with the as-surances of our guide, I advised continuing our course tothe west, which must shortly strike Fort Anne, or some other place that we knew. But Mr. wished to be upon ice at any rate; he was unable to continue in thesnow, for the difficulties of our march had overcome him.And really. Sir, was I to be minute in those we had ex-perienced already and afterwards, they would almost beas tiresome to you to read, as they were to us to suffer. Our snow-shoes breaking, and sinking to our middleevery fifty paces, the scrambling up mountains, andacross fallen timber, our nights without sleep or covering,and but little fire, gathered with great fatigue, our sus-tenance mostly water, and the bark and berries of trees;for all our provisions from the beginning was only a smallBologna sausage, and a little ginger, I happened to have,and which even now was very much decreased; so that Iknew not how to oppose Mr. s intreaties; but
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MRS. ROBERT ROGEFIS (Elizabeth Browne)Photograph of the portrait of Mrs. Robert Rogers, in her bridal gown,painted by Blackburn in 1761. She was married to Major Robert Rogers, byher father, the Rev. Arthur Browne, Rector of Queens Chapel, in Portsmouth,N. H., June 30, 1761, at the age of twenty years LAKE GEORGE 13 as our guide still persisted Fort Anne was near, we con-cluded to search a little longer, and if we made no dis-covery to proceed next day towards the ice; but wesought in vain, as did our guide the next morning, thohe returned, confidently asserting he had discoverd freshproofs, that the fort could not be far off. I confess I wasstill inclined to follow him, for 1 was almost certain thebest we could hope from descending upon this ice to ourleft, was to throw ourselves into the hands of the French,and perhaps not be able to effect even that; but, from thecircumstances I have mentioned, it was a point I mustyield to, which I did with great reluctancy. The wholeday of the 17

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