American actor Spencer Tracy portrayed Major Robert Rogers in
"Northwest Passage" in 1940, the second written volume, the sequel was
never filmed, though said to be a popular historical novel at the
time. I posted an article that appeared in the press in a comment
"Statue of Maj. Robert Rogers to be unwrapped this Memorial Day, 28
May 2005" Associated Press at

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05/28/05 Associated Press Chris Carola "FORT EDWARD, N.Y. - Maj.
Robert Rogers, the frontiersman whose 18th century manual on guerrilla
warfare has become a blueprint for Army Ranger fighting tactics, is
getting what some consider a long-overdue honor: a statue in his
memory. But some veterans believe unveiling the monument on Memorial
Day is insensitive because Rogers was loyal to England during the
Revolutionary War. ... Fearing Rogers was a British spy, Washington
turned down his request to join the Continental Army at the outset of
the American Revolution. Rogers went on to raise a company of loyalist
rangers, but failed to have the impact he had in the previous war. A
heavy drinker, he died a pauper in England in 1795 and lies buried
somewhere beneath the streets of London. ... Controversy aside, a
tribute to Rogers is long overdue, said Stephen Brumwell, a British
author whose latest book, "White Devil," details the most famous
exploit of Rogers' Rangers: the 1759 revenge raid on an Abenaki Indian
village in Quebec. The raid that inspired the 1826 novel "The Last of
the Mohicans," by James Fenimore Cooper. ... "He earned his statue the
hard way," Brumwell said in a telephone interview from his home in the
Netherlands. "While others were sitting out the French and Indian War
in Boston and New York, he was leading patrols into enemy territory,
often in the very depths of winter."