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3 unusual facts about Benoni Danks


Benoni Danks

His company often operated in tandem with Gorham's Rangers, based out of Halifax, and after 1761, the two companies were combined into a Nova Scotia ranging corps, led by Major Joseph Gorham.

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In 1756 his company, men raised mainly in New England, was expanded and became an independent ranger unit in the British Army—often referred to as Danks' Rangers.

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The unit suffered heavy casualties in the skirmishing around the edges of the siege, and for a time, after Danks was seriously wounded, were incorporated into the ranger company of Captain Moses Hazen.



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