Benjamin Church (military officer)
(1639-1718)
American military officer and politician
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Benjamin Church (c. 1639 – January 17, 1718) was New England military leader and captain of the first ranger force in America (1675). 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. The two powers were competing for control in colonial territories. He was promoted to major and ended his service at the rank of colonel, as noted on his gravestone.
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1639 Plymouth Colony
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17 January 1718 (aged 78) Little Compton, Rhode Island
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