Roger's Rangers Standing Orders

Front 1

Standing order 1

Back 1

Don't forget nothing.

Front 2

Standing order 2

Back 2

Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minutes warning.

Front 3

Standing order 3

Back 3

When you're on the march, act the way you would if you was sneaking up on a deer. See the enemy first.

Front 4

Standing order 4

Back 4

Tell the truth about what you see and what you do. There is an army depending on us for correct information. You can lie all you please when you tell other folks about the rangers, but don't never lie to a ranger officer.

Front 5

Standing order 5

Back 5

Don't never take a chance you don't have to.

Front 6

Standing order 6

Back 6

When we're on the march we march single file, far enough apart so one shot can't go through two men.

Front 7

Standing order 7

Back 7

If we strike swamps, or soft ground, we spread out abreast, so it's hard to track us.

Front 8

Standing order 8

Back 8

When we march we keep moving till dark, so as to give the enemy the least possible chance at us.

Front 9

Standing order 9

Back 9

When we camp, half the party stays awake while the other half sleeps.

Front 10

Standing order 10

Back 10

If we take prisoners, we keep em separate till we have time to examine them, so they can't cook up a story between em.

Front 11

Standing order 11

Back 11

Don't ever march home the same way. Take a different route so you won't be ambushed.

Front 12

Standing order 12

Back 12

No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout 20 yards ahead, 20 yards on each flank, and 20 yards in the rear so the main body can't be surprised and wiped out.

Front 13

Standing order 13

Back 13

Every night you'll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force.

Front 14

Standing order 14

Back 14

Don't sit down to eat without posting sentries.

Front 15

Standing order 15

Back 15

Don't sleep beyond dawn. Dawn's when the French and Indians attack.

Front 16

Standing order 16

Back 16

Don't cross a river by a regular ford.

Front 17

Standing order 17

Back 17

If somebody's trailing you, make a circle, come back on your own tracks and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you.

Front 18

Standing order 18

Back 18

Don't stand up when the enemy's coming against you. Kneel down, lie down, hide behind a tree.

Front 19

Standing order 19

Back 19

Let the enemy come till he's almost close enough to touch, then let him have it and jump out and finish him up with your hatchet.