LAKE GEORGE — In his new book, “Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon,” author Martin Klotz explores the life of the eponymous Robert Rogers.

A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army promised them personal liberty. The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ...

Few battles produced mass carnage (one in eight of the British officers who would die in the eight years of war died in four hours at Bunker Hill). Inaccurate muskets (Atkinson says ...

click image for close-up After the revolutionary ... officer with a ball from a pistol." Ranney depicts the unnamed man as a bugler astride a horse, as Morgan and Washington battle three British ...