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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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News from Albany: Major Rogers and two Rangers narrowly escaped enemy forces near Isle de Noire during a sloop excursion from Crown Point; regular regiments have departed Albany, while provincials arrive daily.
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The Brig accompanied the Sloop. All the regular Regiments are gone from Albany to their different Destinations; and the Provincials arrive there daily.
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Albany
Event Date
Lately
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narrowly escaped
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Major Rogers had lately made an Excursion from Crown Point, in one of the Sloops, which went up within three Miles of Isle de Noire, where he and two Rangers went on Shore: That on the Enemy's seeing the Sloop, they dispatched two Birch Canoes, in which it was computed there were Seventy Men, but the Sloop firing on them they immediately turn'd Tail, and landed near where Rogers and his Men lay: and 'tis said he narrowly escaped. All the Discovery he made, Was that there appeared to be Numbers on the Island. The Brig accompanied the Sloop. All the regular Regiments are gone from Albany to their different Destinations; and the Provincials arrive there daily.