John Gorham (military officer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American ranger
Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1709
Place of Birth: Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About John Gorham (military officer)
- John Gorham (Goreham, Gorum) was a New England Ranger and was the first significant British military presence on the frontier of Nova Scotia and Acadia to remain in the region for a substantial period after the Conquest of Acadia (1710).
- He established the famous "Gorham's Rangers".
- He also commissioned two armed vessels: the Anson (Captain John Beare) and the Warren (70 tons, Captain Jonathan Davis), who patrolled off Nova Scotia.Gorham was first commissioned captain of a provincial auxiliary company in June 1744, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the 7th Massachusetts provincial Infantry Regiment in February 1745.
- Two years later, in 1747, he was commissioned captain of an independent company in the British Army when his unit was adopted into the regular army.
- He is sometimes confused with his father, Shubael Gorham (born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, 2 September 1686; died at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, 20 February 1746), a provincial colonel during King George's War.
- He was the one of only a handful of American rangers - including, Gorham, his younger brother Joseph Gorham, Benoni Danks, and later Robert Rogers - to earn commissions in the British Army.
- John Gorham was active during King George's War and Father Le Loutre’s War.
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