Queen's Rangers
| Queen's Rangers | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Active | 1756–1783 |
| Country |
 Great Britain
|
| Allegiance |
 British Army
|
| Branch | British provincial rangers unit |
| Type | dragoons (mounted infantry), light infantry, (auxiliary troops) |
| Role | special operations, maneuver warfare, guerrilla warfare |
| Size | company |
| Garrison/HQ |
Fort William Henry (1755–1757) Rogers Island (1757–1763) |
| Engagements |
French and Indian War |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent |
French and Indian War
American Revolutionary War
New York Campaign (1776)
Philadelphia Campaign (1777-1778)
Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Rogers
Major James Wemyss
The Queen's Rangers also, known as, the Queen's American Rangers and later Simcoe's Rangers, were a military unit that fought in the Seven Years' War and on the Loyalist side, during the American Revolutionary War. A small number of Black Loyalists, who had served in the Black Brigade and Butler's Rangers, were later merged into the Queen's Rangers. After the war, they moved to Nova Scotia colony, British Canada, now present-day Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada and disbanded, but were formed again in Upper Canada before disbanding again, in 1802, a decade prior to the War of 1812. The Queen's Rangers also filled the role of partisan hunters.
The origins of the Queen's Rangers began in the Seven Years' War also known in the United States as the French and Indian War, during which France and Great Britain fought for territories in the New World. At first, French-Canadian habitants and their Indian allies were quite effective by employing guerrilla tactics against the British regulars. To counter the French tactics, Robert Rogers raised companies of New England frontiersmen for the British and trained them in woodcraft, scouting, and irregular warfare, sending them on raids along the frontiers of French Canada as Rogers' Rangers. The Rangers soon gained a considerable reputation, particularly in the campaigning in upstate New York around Fort Ticonderoga and Lake Champlain. They also launched a long-range raid to destroy Indian allies in the St. Lawrence valley, gained the first lodgement in the amphibious landings on Cape Breton to capture Louisbourg, and took the surrender of the French outposts in the Upper Great Lakes at the conclusion of the war.
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