21. Robert Rogers created a new method of soldiering
Robert Rogers did not create the soldierly tactics applied by the Rangers he commanded as much as he documented them. Using tactics borrowed from the Indians and the opposing French coureurs de bois, Rogers created companies of men from New England and New York which carried out storied raids against the French and Indians, clad in distinctive green buckskins. Rogers committed his Rules of Ranging to writing in 1758, and they are still listed on the first page of the US Army’s Ranger handbook. Robert Rogers shaped and documented a new form of warfare still practiced, and became one of the most famous men in America before indebtedness and rum took over his later life.