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Danks' Rangers was a ranger unit raised in colonial North America and led by Captain Benoni Danks (ca. 1716-1776). It was modeled on and often served alongside of the better known Gorham's Rangers. The unit was recruited in early 1756, during the early stages of the Seven Years' War / French and Indian War, from among men serving in two then-disbanding New England provincial battalions stationed in Nova Scotia. Raised to help protect the British garrison on the Isthmus of Chignecto and secure the area after the siege of Fort Beauséjour, their principle foes were Acadian and Mi'kmaq Indians conducting a low-level insurgency against the British authorities in Nova Scotia. Their primary area of operations was the northwestern portion of Nova Scotia and the north and eastern parts of what woul

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rdfs:comment	Danks' Rangers was a ranger unit raised in colonial North America and led by Captain Benoni Danks (ca. 1716-1776). It was modeled on and often served alongside of the better known Gorham's Rangers. The unit was recruited in early 1756, during the early stages of the Seven Years' War / French and Indian War, from among men serving in two then-disbanding New England provincial battalions stationed in Nova Scotia. Raised to help protect the British garrison on the Isthmus of Chignecto and secure the area after the siege of Fort Beauséjour, their principle foes were Acadian and Mi'kmaq Indians conducting a low-level insurgency against the British authorities in Nova Scotia. Their primary area of operations was the northwestern portion of Nova Scotia and the north and eastern parts of what woul (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	1756 establishments in the British Empire Robert Monckton Scottish Americans Battle of Fort Beauséjour Benoni Danks Paul Mascarene Petitcodiac River Campaign United States Army Rangers Light infantry Military units and formations of Nova Scotia Regiments of the British Army Colonial history of the United States Counter-insurgency French and Indian War Gorham's Rangers Moses Hazen Military history of Nova Scotia History of the Thirteen Colonies Anglo-Americans Light Infantry Siege of Havana Siege of Louisbourg (1758) Pequot British Army Rangers Military units and formations of the French and Indian War British Army British Crown British American Army Rangers William Shirley Military history of Acadia Military history of New England Military history of the Thirteen Colonies Expulsion of the Acadians Nova Scotia Battle of Havana (1762) Isthmus of Chignecto Reconnaissance Halifax, Nova Scotia Irish Americans Israel Putnam Acadians Charles Lawrence (British Army officer) Yankee 1762 disestablishments in North America St. John River Campaign Guerrilla warfare Mi'kmaq people Military history of the Acadians New Brunswick Seven Years' War Battle of Quebec (1759) Scalping Louisbourg Expedition (1757) Joseph Gorham Robert Rogers (soldier) Military history of the Mi’kmaq People Fort Cumberland (Canada) Moralization

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