Adams' Rangers | |
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Active | 1777-1780 |
Country | Great Britain |
Allegiance | Great Britain |
Branch | Loyalist local volunteer corps |
Type | infantry (auxiliary troops) |
Role | scouting |
Size | company (70 men) and officers |
Part of | British Army under generals John Burgoyne, Simon Fraser, Baron Riedesel |
Garrison/HQ | Province of Quebec |
Nickname(s) | Adams’ Company of Rangers |
Engagements | American Revolutionary War
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Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Captain Samuel Adams Captain Jeptha Hawley |
Adams' Rangers, also known as Adams’ Company of Rangers, were a British Loyalist local volunteer corps and independent military company raised to support the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. Led by Dr. Samuel Adams of Arlington, New Hampshire Grants (now Vermont), the Rangers made their most significant contribution to the British war effort by serving with the ill-fated Burgoyne Expedition in the Saratoga campaign of 1777.