By the 1750s inhabitants of the English colonies had also become adept at wilderness warfare. In March 1758, a party of Anglo-Americans and their Amerindian allies donned snowshoes to march upon the French fort at Carillon. The expedition, led by Major Robert Rogers and including a body of sixty specialized forest fighters called Rangers was intercepted by a superior detachment of French with their Amerindian allies on 13 March. In the engagement that followed, the Canadians defeated Rogers' forces. This re-creation of the battle is by artist J.L.G Ferris (1863-1930). American Rangers figured prominently in the fighting on the northern and western frontiers during the remaining years of the Seven Years' War.
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