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TIL about Rogers' Rangers, an independent ranger company attached to the British Army during the Seven Years' War. The Rangers disbanded in 1761 only to be revived as a Loyalist force during the American Revolution, with the US Army Rangers and Queen's York Rangers claiming descent.

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