capture of Nathan Hale, a spy for the Continental Army. A contemporaneous account of Hale's capture is in the Library of Congress, written by Consider Tiffany, a Connecticut shopkeeper and Loyalist. In Tiffany's account, Rogers did not believe Hale's cover story that he was a teacher, and lured him into his own betrayal by pretending to be a patriot spy himself. In May 1777, the British Army forcibly retired Rogers on grounds of "poor health". A return home now was impossible; Hale's execution and Rogers raising troops against the colonials seemed to confirm Washington's suspicions. At Washington's prompting, the New Hampshire legislature passed two decrees regarding Rogers: one a proscription, and the other a divorce from his wife on grounds of abandonment and infidelity. She could not afford any friendship or mercy toward Robert now if she expected to remain in New Hampshire. Later, Elizabeth married American naval officer John Roche. She died in 1811. Later life and death After a brief sojourn in England, Rogers returned in 1779 to raise the King's Rangers in Nova Scotia for General Sir Henry Clinton. He was unable to keep the position due to his alcoholism, so his place was taken by his brother James. Robert Rogers played no further part in the war. Rogers was captured by an American privateer and spent some time in a prison in New York, escaping in 1782. In 1783, he was evacuated with other British troops to England. There, he was unable to earn a living or to defeat his alcoholism. He died in obscurity and debt in 1795, what little money he had going to pay an arrears in rent. He was buried in London but his gravesite has been lost. Legacy Maj. Rogers is an inaugural inductee into the United States Army Ranger Hall of Fame in 1992, for tactics and success as a Ranger, setting the standard for today's U.S. Army Rangers. Camp Rogers, on the eastern edge of Fort Benning, is the location of the Ranger Assessment Phase of U.S. Army Ranger School, and the headquarters compound for the United States Army Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade. On 30 May 2005, (Memorial Day in the U.S.), a statue of Rogers was unveiled during a ceremony on Rogers Island in the Hudson River, north of Albany, New York. This is near to the site where Rogers penned his "Rules of Ranging". Rogers is