[ROGERS] ROGERS, RANGER AND LOYALIST 55 
Ultimately, however, and upon his own authority, Haldimand 
placed the corps upon his own establishment. A scale of half pay was 
arranged, and the Rangers clothed in the regulation green uniforms of 
the provincial corps. From this time forward the King’s Rangers gar- 
risoned the post of St. Johns, sharing the barracks there, at first with 
the 34th and, subsequently, with the 29th regiments of foot.t 
The correspondence of James Rogers with the commander-in- 
chief in Canada, from 1779 to 1784, is still preserved in the British 
Museum and, together with fugitive letters of Robert Rogers, fills a 
substantial folio volume of manuscript. The “ Field Officers’ Letters 
of Rogers’ King’s Rangers” are in the Record Office, London, removed 
there from the War Office Archives. The light which these old docu- 
ments throw upon the military history of the time is a curious one. 
The chief difficulties in the administration of the corps seem to have 
arisen concerning the matter of recruiting and the intermingling of 
the accounts with those of Halifax, where the other detachment of the 
regiment was stationed. 
For the rest, James Rogers’s relations with his commander-in-chief 
are excellent. Repeated testimony to the confidence felt in his integ- 
rity, at headquarters, occurs in the correspondence. His long ap- 
prenticeship to warfare, his intimate knowledge of the country, and his 
undoubted zeal for the King’s service, contributed to his usefulness at 
this frontier post. Various schemes of reconnaissance and attack were, 
from time to time, submitted by him for his Excellency’s consideration, 
and approved. His advice is asked and taken. On morethan one 
occasion he seems to have been employed, where a field officer’s services 
were demanded, upon missions of delicacy and importance. 
The growing despondency as to the issue of the war is apparent as 
time goes on. Incredulity as to the truth of the surrender at York- 
town is succeeded by consternation when the news of the disaster is 
confirmed. 
At last, in November, 1783, the King’s order for the disbanding of 
the loyalist troops arrives. It is accompanied by extracts from Lord 
North’s letters respecting the allotment of lands to the provincial troops 
and refugee loyalists, then in the Province of Quebec. 

1 The army of Canada in 1781 consisted of the following troops : The 8th, 29th, 
31st, 34th, 44th, 58rd, 150 men of the 47th, a battalion of the 84th or Maclean’s High- 
land Emigrants, Sir Jolin Johnson’s Royal Regiment of New York. Jessop’s Loyal 
Rangers, formerly the Loyal Americans, and Rogers’s King’s Rangers. In addition 
to the above were the German troops, consisting chiefly of Brunswickers and Hes- 
sians. Gen. Riedesel in a plan, communicated to Clinton about this time, for 
operations against the Ohio and Allegheny regions, estimates the total effective 
strength in Canada at 6.000 men. Max von Eciking's Memoir of Maj. Gen. Riedesel. 
