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en-wikipedia-org-2280		Benjamin Church (ranger) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2987	271	70	He was a military leader of the historic predecessor of the United States Army Rangers,[1] captain of the first Ranger force in America (1675).[2] Church was commissioned by Josiah Winslow, the Governor of the Plymouth Colony, to form the first ranger company for King Philip's War. He later commanded the company to raid Acadia during King William's and Queen Anne's wars in the early 1700s, as French and English hostilities played out in North America. Toward this end, he worked to adopt Indian techniques of small, flexible forces that used the woods and ground for cover, rather than mounting frontal attacks in military formation.[1] English colonists developed as rangers under the tutelage of their Native American allies. During King William's War (1688–97), Church led four New England raiding parties into Acadia (which included most of Maine) against the ethnic French Acadians and hostile Native Americans, including the Abenaki.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2280.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2280.txt