mentioned respectfully in "The Ranger Handbook" which is given to every soldier in the U.S. Army's Ranger School, and is referred to in that publication as the originator of ranger tactics in the American military. The Handbook summarizes Rogers' principles of irregular warfare as presented in "Rules of Ranging"." Methuen High School, in the town in which Rogers was born, uses the "Rangers" as their mascot. In fiction Rogers' heroics in the French and Indian War, including the search for the Northwest Passage, and his later life are depicted in the novel Northwest Passage (1936) by Kenneth Roberts. The novel inspired the 1940 film Northwest Passage, starring Spencer Tracy as Major Rogers. The novel and film inspired the 1958–1959 NBC TV series Northwest Passage, starring Keith Larsen as Rogers. Rogers appears in Diana Gabaldon's historical novel An Echo in the Bone, which includes a dramatization of Rogers' capture of Nathan Hale. Angus Macfadyen.portrays Rogers as a central antihero in the 2014-2017 AMC drama series Turn: Washington's Spies. See also Long-range reconnaissance patrol United States Army Rangers References Further reading Beattie, Daniel J. (1986). “The Adaptation of the British Army to Wilderness Warfare, 1755-1763”, Adapting to Conditions: War and Society in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Maarten Ultee (University of Alabama Press), 56–83. Chet, Guy. “The Literary and Military Career of Benjamin Church: Change or Continuity in Early American Warfare,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 35:2 (Summer 2007): 105-112 Chet, Guy (2003). Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast. University of Massachusetts Press. Pargellis, Stanley McCrory. “Braddock’s Defeat”, American Historical Review 41 (1936): 253–269. Pargellis, Stanley McCrory (1933). Lord Loudoun in North America. Yale University Press. Potter, Tiffany, ed. Robert Rogers' Ponteach, or the Savages of America: A Tragedy. University of Toronto Press, 2010. plus Author Interview at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on 27 March 2010 External links Contains descendants of Robert Rogers, James Rogers, Samuel Rogers and his other siblings. 1731 births 1795 deaths American people of Scotch-Irish descent British America army officers British people of Pontiac's War Loyalists in the American Revolution from New Hampshire People acquitted of treason People from Dunbarton, New Hampshire People from Methuen, Massachusetts People of colonial Massachusetts People of colonial New Hampshire People of Massachusetts in the French and Indian War Military personnel from Massachusetts