Note 6 — A Battle Fought on Snow Shoes
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For a detail of our Author’s adventures, after he obtained the command of those American light-armed infantry, called Rangers, see the Journals of Major Rogers, mentioned in our Catalogue for this month: a work wrote, as he declares, ‘not with silence and leisure, but in, desarts, on rocks and mountains, amidst the hurries, disorders, and noise of war, and under that depression of spirits, which is the natural consequence of exhausting fatigue.’