Their primary area of operations was the northwestern portion of Nova Scotia and the north and eastern parts of what would later become New Brunswick.

As part of the combined Nova Scotia ranger corps, Danks and his company took part in the Siege of Havana in 1762, where, according to Israel Putnam, Danks sold his commission in the rangers at Havana on 23 Sept. 1762 to Andrew Watson, who commanded the company for the next few months until the unit was disbanded after half its men had succumbed to tropical diseases.

The survivors were drafted into British Army regiments at occupied Havana whose ranks were equally depleted by illness.

"[7] While some historians have suggested that Graham intentionally exaggerated his account due to an attempt to transform the story into a moralizing one, in addition to the fact that it was written a religious figure more than thirty years after the events described took place a recent article by historian Brian D. Carroll suggests the Mi'kmaq targeted rangers from Danks' company specifically for violent retribution.

And Carroll further quotes Knox himself recording regular British troops having to defend an Acadian woman from members of the company during the Petitcodiac River Campaign in 1758.