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Colonel Benjamin Church (c. 1639 – January 17, 1718) is considered the forerunner of the United States Army Rangers.〔John Grenier. The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier. Cambridge University Press. 2005. p. 35〕 He was the captain of the first Ranger force in America (1676).〔John Grenier. The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier. Cambridge University Press. 2005. p. 33〕 Church was commissioned by the Governor of the Plymouth Colony, Josiah Winslow to form the first ranger company for King Philip's War. He later employed the company to raid Acadia during King William's War and Queen Anne's War. Church designed his force primarily to emulate Indian patterns of war. Toward this end, he endeavored to learn to fight like Indians from Indians.〔John Grenier. The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier. Cambridge University Press. 2005. p. 35〕 Americans became rangers exclusively under the tutelage of the Indian allies. (Until the end of the colonial period, rangers depended on Indians as both allies and teachers.)〔John Grenier, p. 33-34〕 Church developed a special full-time unit mixing white colonists selected for frontier skills with friendly Indians to carry out offensive strikes against hostile Indians and French in terrain where normal militia units were ineffective. His memoirs "Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War" were published in 1716 and are considered the first American military manual. ==Family== Born in Plymouth Colony in about 1639, Church married Alice Southworth on December 26, 1667 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. He resided for a time in Duxbury and later moved to Bristol. Alice Southworth Church's table grave is a particularly historically significant grave in Little Compton, Rhode Island.〔Roger Guillemette Commissioner - Newport County Rhode Island Advisory Commission on Historic Cemeteries〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Church (ranger)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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