[katana]

Just two episodes in and the characters in Turn are already becoming iconic. This one, Col. Rogers of the Queen's Rangers, seems to be pretty accurately portrayed as a semi-drunken but clever Scots-Irish frontiersman. Willing to do whatever for the King's coin, not unlike the bas****s in so many modern Federal agencies. The information I've been able to find about the real Col. Rogers is fascinating. He captured Nathan Hale (probably the only Revolutionary War American spy most people had ever heard of before this series began airing) and tricked into him putting his neck in the noose. But was otherwise a raging alcoholic who died penniless after going back to England with other defeated Loyalists.

[cripplecreek]

Wiki actually has a pretty decent write up on Robert Rodgers. He went from great pre American hero to someone you wouldn’t want to be seen with.

I was amazed at the line in the show about making the Captain’s murderer “Something even lower than a sodomite”.