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WHO ARE THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS - University of Vermont  The Green Mountain Boys were created in southwestern Vermont, and were ... The Boys were led by Ethan Allen, his brother Ira, their cousins Seth ... He later became a Lieutenant Colonel of the Continental Army, and a Major General of the militia. ... In the late 1770's Ethan went in front of the Continental Congress to...
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Green Mountain Boys (1777) - American Revolutionary War Forums  Green Mountain Boys (1777) - American militia unit in the American Revolution. ... and his then subordinate, Seth Warner induced the Continental Congress at Philadelphia to create a Continental Army ranger regiment from the ... In July of 1775 Allen's militia was granted support from the New York revolutionary Congress.
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Ethan Allen - Wikipedia  Ethan Allen was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, ... Legal setbacks led to the formation of the Green Mountain Boys, whom Allen led in a campaign of intimidation ..... On May 14, he was breveted a colonel in the Continental Army in "reward of his fortitude, firmness and zeal in the...
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Seth Warner or Ethan Allen: Who Led the Green Mountain Boys ...  May 5, 2014 ... The legendary stories of Ethan Allen and Vermont's Green Mountain Boys ... Continental Congress to obtain military pay for the Green Mountain Boys ... After this battle, Warner and his men returned to their homes for the winter. ..... land dispute was not the same as leadership of a Continental regiment in a...
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Green Mountain Boys - Wikipedia  The Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in the late 1760s in the ... Headed by Ethan Allen and members of his extended family, they were ... militia was granted support from the New York revolutionary Congress. ... By the 1770s, the Green Mountain Boys had become an armed military force and...
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga - Wikipedia  The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a ... In 1775, Fort Ticonderoga's location did not appear to be as strategically important as it had been in the French and...
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WHO ARE THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS - University of Vermont  The Boys were led by Ethan Allen, his brother Ira, their cousins Seth Warner and ... Once the American Revolution started in 1775 the Green Mountain Boys ... the fourteenth state in the United States, and the Green Mountain Boys (Vermont...
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Overtaxed military needs no more work - tribunedigital-baltimoresun  Oct 3, 2005 ... CHICAGO -- During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, exasperated at Gen. George McClellan's chronic reluctance to attack the enemy, said that if the ... that if the general wasn't going to use the Army, he would like to borrow it. ... the Posse Comitatus Act. He wants the authority to use the Army for...
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George B. McClellan - Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War  He earned two brevets under Winfield Scott in Mexico and later served at his ... Now called "The Young Napoleon," he actively worked for Scott's retirement and ... army and was welcomed by his men who affectionately called him "Little Mac. ... Active in state politics, he served as New Jersey's governor in the late 1870's and...
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Ethan Allen Monument in Burlington, Vermont's Green Mount ...  Green Mount Cemetery Burlington, Vermont ... Nevertheless, in 1873 this monument was erected at the site of the burial place of the Revolutionary war hero. ... the town and of the various cities of the Union; Allen's Narrative of his Captivity; Appleton's ... Monument can be found here ... You can feel confident that the material
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga - Wikipedia  The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and ... British forces placed there would expose the colonial forces in Boston to ... to join a war council, where he made a case to lead the expedition based on...
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President Washington Signs a Land Patent for The Hero of ...  The victory turned the Revolutionary War in favor of the Americans, and ... In 1775, he was commissioned a brigadier general and adjutant general of the ... his signal achievement, and appointed him president of the new Board of War. ... when the former notified Congress directly of his victory over Burgoyne at Saratoga.
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Ethan Allen - The American Revolutionary War  His marriage was in bad shape; Ethan felt he did not know Mary well enough ... Whatever his reasoning, Ethan Allen began rounding up the Green Mountain Boys. On May 2, 1775 Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys met up with a group of soldiers from ... This was the first win for the American Continental Army.
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Seth Warner - Wikiwand  An early historian wrote that Warner was a fortunate and indefatigable hunter." ... Warner was second in command to Ethan Allen, who was spokesman and .... Warner mustered the militia of the New Hampshire Grants and led them to the Lake .... The Green Mountain Boys, published in 1839 by Daniel Pierce Thompson.
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Benedict Arnold - Wikipedia  This monument was erected under the patronage of the State of Connecticut in the 55th year of ... In July 1780, he was awarded command of West Point. ... for treason or betrayal because he betrayed his countrymen by leading the British army ..... At first, he asked for indemnification of his losses and 10,000, an amount that...
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Revolutionary War Soldiers - History of American Wars  Our collective image of Revolutionary War soldiers is the clash between the well trained, ... When Americans began to produce arms for their army, similarity was the rule. .... of his militia service under British command, but that experience would be ... Order in the ranks was instituted when the Prussian officer Friedrich von...
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Ethan Allen - People of Connecticut - Netstate  Ethan Allen took the side of the existing settlers, and soon became a leader in the ... The governor of New York, William Tryon, proclaimed Ethan Allen an outlaw, and ... even after the reward for his capture was raised to 100 pounds in 1774. With the American Revolution at hand, the Green Mountain Boys assembled under...
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Washington Accepts His Appointment as Commander of Continental ...  On June 15, 1775, the Continental Congress "elected" George Washington as ... Continental Army: "Resolved, That a General be appointed to command all the ... Washington Esqr. that he had the order of the Congress to acq[ain]t him, that the ... unanimous vote made choice of him to be general and com[mander] in chief to...
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Mountain Boy organization. Future Green Mountain Boys were ...  most violent years of Green Mountain Boy insurgency336 had come from the riot ... shares in Bennington and many surrounding southwestern Vermont towns, but both he and ..... won the forty-year land war against New York, sustaining their inde ... played no part in the founding of the state from late 1775 to July 1777.
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Statehood for Vermont - Puerto Rico 51st  Led by Ethan Allen and backed by his Green Mountain Boys militia, the ... independence against rule by either the colonial government of New York or England. ... the first thirteen original states ratified the U.S. Constitution, Vermont, an area...
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I BROKED IT by outofculture  Pull Request #1  petekinnecom ...  + "question": "'Revolutionary War hero: \"His spirit is in Vermont now\"'",. + "value": "$1000",. + "answer": "Ethan Allen". + }. + ]. + },. + {. + "name": "3-LETTER...