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The Rangers

Or, The Tory's Daughter: A Tale Illustrative of the Revolutionary History of Vermont and the Northern Campaign of 1777

by Daniel P. Thompson 1795–1868

The book, and the century it came out of.

Vermont in 1777: Burgoyne coming down from Canada, the Green Mountain Boys, Bennington, and a Tory’s daughter caught between her father’s loyalty and her own. Thompson was a Vermont judge who collected the testimony of the men who fought it while they were still alive to give it — the campaign here is history taken down from witnesses and then told as a story. Illustrated with 60 full-page plates — paintings by West, Davies and Serres among them.

On commencing his former work, illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont,—THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS,—it was the design of the author to have embraced the battle of Bennington, and other events of historic interest which occurred in the older and more southerly parts of the state; but finding, as he proceeded,…
The first sentence of The Rangers
A note on this edition

The Rangers, by Daniel P. Thompson, complete and unabridged. Spelling and punctuation follow present-day American usage; the sentences, the paragraphs and the voice are the author’s, word for word.

It was written in another era and may carry attitudes a reader today will find dated. They are kept for the sake of the work and do not reflect the views of this house.

The edition
Format
Ebook
Extent
about 360 pages
Reading time
about 7 hours
Illustrations
Full-page plates, credited
Text
Complete, unabridged
Language
en
This edition
2026
ISBN
9785501001459
The plates

60 paintings are bound into this edition

Six of them are shown here, taken from the volume itself. Each is reproduced full page and named with its painter and year.

An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara, Thomas Davies
An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara Thomas Davies 1762
Mountain Landscape at Sunset, Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Mountain Landscape at Sunset Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1765
Classical Landscape, John Wootton
Classical Landscape John Wootton 1754
A View of Alexander Pope’s Villa, Twickenham, on the Banks of the Thames., Samuel Scott
A View of Alexander Pope’s Villa, Twickenham, on the Banks of the Thames Samuel Scott 1759
Landscape with Peasants, Johann Conrad Seekatz
Landscape with Peasants Johann Conrad Seekatz 1765
The Four Times of Day: Night, Joseph Vernet
The Four Times of Day: Night Joseph Vernet 1757
The setting

A page from this edition

Not a mock-up: this page is taken from the finished volume. The ornament above the chapter belongs to its shelf and to no other, the opening letter is set as a drop capital, and the plate below carries the name of the painter and the year.

A page of The Rangers as set for this edition
The opening of a chapter
A page of The Rangers as set for this edition
A page where a plate falls

Both photographed from the finished volume.

Colophon

The Rangers, issued in this edition by Aeneas Press in 2026 on the Adventure & the Sea shelf. Newly set, with the ornament of its series above each chapter and a drop capital on the opening page. Illustrated with full-page plates, each named with its painter.

Published as an ebook and not issued in print by this house; it carries one ISBN, 9785501001459, and is supplied worldwide. This edition — its setting, its ornament, its cover art, and the selection and attribution of its plates — © 2026 Aeneas Press.

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Questions readers ask

Is this the whole of The Rangers?
Yes — complete and unabridged. Nothing is cut, condensed or paraphrased. This is the book, not a summary of it.
What exactly did you change?
The spelling and the punctuation follow present-day American usage. Daniel P. Thompson's sentences are untouched — same words, same order, same rhythm.
Are the pictures really in the book?
Yes. The edition carries full-page plates bound into the text, each one named with its painter and the year it was made. Six of them are shown on this page.
How long is it?
About 360 pages, which is roughly about 7 hours of reading.
What do I actually get?
An illustrated ebook with its own ISBN, sold worldwide. One file, yours to keep, readable on any device.
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