On Rogers Island at Fort Edward, Robert Rogers organized and led his Rangers, a force that adopted forms of warfare used by Native Americans and relied on swift movement, small groups, scouting, and ambush in the wooded and mountainous country of the northern colonies. Stationed on the island from 1757 to 1759, Rogers and his men helped protect the growing British post at Fort Edward while striking French and Indian forces across northern New York, New England, and Canada. Their experience shaped Rogers' Rules for Ranging, twenty-eight practical guidelines for frontier warfare that later remained influential with U.S. Army Rangers. In 1758, during the Battle on Snowshoes near Ticonderoga, Rogers' men were caught by a larger force of French regulars, Canadian militia, and French-allied Indians after ambushing a smaller group, and Rogers used his rule directing men to scatter individually to avoid encirclement. He then escaped pursuit by creating the impression that he had descended the steep bare slope of Bald Mountain to frozen Lake George, though he had actually gone down a less dangerous gorge, and the episode gave Bald Mountain the later name Rogers' Rock. Rogers' Rangers served with distinction through the French and Indian War before being disbanded when the conflict ended in 1763. At the opening of the American Revolution, Rogers sought favor from both sides, won the trust of neither, served as a lieutenant colonel in a battalion of the Queen's Rangers with little notable action, left for London in 1782, spent time in debtors' prison, and died nearly forgotten in 1795.