Episode 52 — Tales of the Rangers, Part II — The Captivity of John Stark

John Stark was a badass — a real-deal American hero, born and bred on the New England Frontier. He served as second-in-command of Rogers Rangers in the French and Indian War, led a frontier-bred contingent of New Hampshire militias to Boston, where they hammered the British Army with devastating volleys of accurate musket fire in the battle of Bunker Hill, and he beat a German contingent of the British Army in a standup fight at Bennington in the summer of 1777, setting up the key American victory at Saratoga. His gritty determination and his tactical acumen were on display early, when he was captured by Abenaki warriors in the spring of 1752...

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