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Author : Ethan Allen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Ethan and Ira Allen written by Ethan Allen and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ethan Allen
Publisher : Chalidze Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781565412101
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Ethan and Ira Allen written by Ethan Allen and published by Chalidze Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ira Allen
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Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Ethan and Ira Allen written by Ira Allen and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vermont Historical Society
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Ethan and Ira Allen written by Vermont Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Benjamin Wilbur
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ira Allen written by James Benjamin Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Walter Brown
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Ethan Allen written by Charles Walter Brown and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Kevin Graffagnino
Publisher : Stylus Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0934720800
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Ira Allen written by J. Kevin Graffagnino and published by Stylus Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land speculator, revolutionary, pamphleteer, politician, and empire builder, Ira Allen (1751–1814) was a key figure on the Green Mountain frontier. In a remarkable Vermont pioneer generation that included such noteworthy leaders as Ethan Allen, Thomas Chittenden, Moses Robinson, Isaac Tichenor, and Stephen Row Bradley, Ira Allen stood out for his extraordinary energy, vision, and accomplishments. He helped create and sustain the independent State of Vermont; held such important state offices as treasurer, surveyor general, and member of the Governor’s Council; published hundreds of pages defending Vermont against a host of internal and external enemies; and represented Vermont in negotiations with the British Empire, other American states, and Congress. As an entrepreneur Allen amassed a Champlain Valley land portfolio of 120,000 acres and dreamed of developing the commercial and industrial potential of northwestern Vermont to establish profitable trade networks with Canada, England, and France. When his financial reach exceeded his grasp in the 1790s, he devised an audacious plan for a French Canadian rebellion against British authority that he hoped would restore his fortunes and turn his dreams into reality. At the end of his life, alone and destitute in Philadelphia, Allen remained true to his revolutionary roots, throwing his support behind an ill-fated filibustering expedition against Mexican control of what two decades later became Texas. J. Kevin Graffagnino’s biography ably details Ira Allen’s extraordinary life. As the first published examination of Allen’s career in nearly a century, this book shines new light on Allen and his prominent role in Vermont’s formative decades.
Author : Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082288
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Ethan Allen: His Life and Times written by Willard Sterne Randall and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison. On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father. Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen’s beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state. Chronicling Allen’s upward struggle from precocious, if not unruly, adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution, Randall unlocks a trove of new source material, particularly evident in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner-of-war. While the biography reacquaints readers with the familiar details of Allen’s life—his capture during the aborted American invasion of Canada, his philosophical works that influenced Thomas Paine, his seminal role in gaining Vermont statehood, his stirring funeral in 1789—Randall documents that so much of what we know of Allen is mere myth, historical folklore that people have handed down, as if Allen were Paul Bunyan. As Randall reveals, Ethan Allen, a so-called Robin Hood in the eyes of his dispossessed Green Mountain settlers, aggrandized, and unabashedly so, the holdings of his own family, a fact that is glossed over in previous accounts, embellishing his own best-selling prisoner-of-war narrative as well. He emerges not only as a public-spirited leader but as a self-interested individual, often no less rapacious than his archenemies, the New York land barons of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. As John E. Ferling comments, “Randall has stripped away the myths to provide as accurate an account of Allen’s life as will ever be written.” The keen insights that he produces shed new light, not only on this most enigmatic of Founding Fathers, but on today’s descendants of the Green Mountain Boys, whose own political disenfranchisement resonates now more than ever.
Author : Ethan Allen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ethan Allen and His Kin written by Ethan Allen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Hall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ethan Allen written by Henry Hall and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John J. Duffy
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611685559
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Inventing Ethan Allen written by John J. Duffy and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1969, Ethan Allen has been the subject of three biographical studies, all of which indulge in sustaining and revitalizing the image of Allen as a physically imposing Vermont yeoman, a defender of the rights of Americans, an eloquent military hero, and a master of many guises, from rough frontiersman to gentleman philosopher. Seeking the authentic Ethan Allen, the authors of this volume ask: How did that Ethan Allen secure his place in popular culture? As they observe, this spectacular persona leaves little room for a more accurate assessment of Allen as a self-interested land speculator, rebellious mob leader, inexperienced militia officer, and truth-challenged man who would steer Vermont into the British Empire. Drawing extensively from the correspondence in Ethan Allen and his Kin and a wide range of historical, political, and cultural sources, Duffy and Muller analyze the factors that led to Ethan Allen's two-hundred-year-old status as the most famous figure in Vermont's past. Placing facts against myths, the authors reveal how Allen acquired and retained his iconic image, how the much-repeated legends composed after his death coincide with his life, why recollections of him are synonymous with the story of Vermont, and why some Vermonters still assign to Allen their own cherished and idealized values.
Author : Henry Walter DePuy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Ethan Allen and the Green-Mountain Heroes of '76 written by Henry Walter DePuy and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Benjamin Wilbur
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Ira Allen written by James Benjamin Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher S. Wren
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416599568
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom written by Christopher S. Wren and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth and the reality of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont—a “surprising and interesting new account…useful, informative reexamination of an often-misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution” (Booklist). In the “highly recommended” (Library Journal) Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. They were ruffians who joined the rush for cheap land on the northern frontier of the colonies in the years before the American Revolution. Allen did not serve in the Continental Army but he raced Benedict Arnold for the famous seizure of Britain’s Fort Ticonderoga. Allen and Arnold loathed each other. General George Washington, leery of Allen, refused to give him troops. In a botched attempt to capture Montreal against specific orders of the commanding American general, Allen was captured in 1775 and shipped to England to be hanged. Freed in 1778, he spent the rest of his time negotiating with the British but failing to bring Vermont back under British rule. “A worthy addition to the canon of works written about this fractious period in this country’s history” (Addison County Independent), this is a groundbreaking account of an important and little-known front of the Revolutionary War, of George Washington (and his good sense), and of a major American myth. Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom is an “engrossing” (Publishers Weekly) and essential contribution to the history of the American Revolution.
Author : Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076652
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Ethan Allen written by Willard Sterne Randall and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the frontier Founding Father who led a daring attack on Fort Ticonderoga and almost single-handedly brought the state of Vermont into the Union.
Author : John J. Duffy
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611685540
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Inventing Ethan Allen written by John J. Duffy and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1969, Ethan Allen has been the subject of three biographical studies, all of which indulge in sustaining and revitalizing the image of Allen as a physically imposing Vermont yeoman, a defender of the rights of Americans, an eloquent military hero, and a master of many guises, from rough frontiersman to gentleman philosopher. Seeking the authentic Ethan Allen, the authors of this volume ask: How did that Ethan Allen secure his place in popular culture? As they observe, this spectacular persona leaves little room for a more accurate assessment of Allen as a self-interested land speculator, rebellious mob leader, inexperienced militia officer, and truth-challenged man who would steer Vermont into the British Empire. Drawing extensively from the correspondence in Ethan Allen and his Kin and a wide range of historical, political, and cultural sources, Duffy and Muller analyze the factors that led to Ethan Allen's two-hundred-year-old status as the most famous figure in Vermont's past. Placing facts against myths, the authors reveal how Allen acquired and retained his iconic image, how the much-repeated legends composed after his death coincide with his life, why recollections of him are synonymous with the story of Vermont, and why some Vermonters still assign to Allen their own cherished and idealized values.
Author : Charles Walter Brown
Publisher : Kirk Press
ISBN 13 : 1443721107
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Ethan Allen of Green Mountain Fame - A Hero of the Revolution written by Charles Walter Brown and published by Kirk Press. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ETHAN ALLEN OF GREEN MOUNTAIN FAME- A HERO OF THE REVOLUTION By Charles Walter Brown. Contents include: Chapter Pag Introduction . 9 I. Early Life of Ethan Allen . 13 II. The New Hampshire Grants ... 17 III. Controversy Concerning Claims . . 33 IV. Reward for his Apprehension . 41 V. Defying the Authorities ... 59 VI. Beginnings of the Revolution . . 70 VII. The Capture of Fort Tieonderoga . . 83 VIII. Carried a Prisoner to England . . 101 IX. Return to America .... 115 X. Scientific Barbarity of Great Britain . 135 XI. Release from Captivity .... 151 XII. A Counter Proclamation . . . 175 XIII. Admission of Vermont into the Union . 199 XIV. Incidents, Anecdotes, Adventures . .211 XV. Character Religious Views Death . 226 XVI. Correspondence, State Papers, Docu ments 243 XVII. The Allen Family .... 265. ETHAN ALLEN. Hurra for old Ethan, The hero of Ti Whose heart was most dauntless When danger was nigh, His sword was an army, His presence a host, Who bolder and braver Can chivalry boast The lyre of the poet, 1 The pen of the sage, May quicken the spirit, Enlighten the age. Still the sword of the hero, When drawn for the truth, Is the pride of the aged, The glory of youth. Old Ethan, we love thee, Thou valiant and bold Thy name shall be spoken Where brave deeds are told. While bright skies bend oer ui, And pure waters flow, In the name of old Ethaa Well to victory go. Then let every freeman, Remember with joy, The deeds of old Ethan, The Green Mountain Boy From mountain and valley Let patriots cry, Hurra for old Ethan, The hero of The American Revolution called forth the latent ener gies of many individuals who, in a more peaceable state of political affairs, would have slumbered in obscurity and gone down to the grave unhonored and unknown. The very nature of the policy of Great Britain toward the Colonies a policy every way tyrannical and oppressive was calculated to call into action the efforts of every friend of liberty. It was an attempt to strip the people of their rights and manacle them with the fetters of slavery but, thanks to the spirit which prevailed among our fathers thanks to the patriotism which then warmed the hearts of the people the mercenaries of a foreign power were unequal to the task of accomplishing the designs of their masters. True-hearted volunteers rallied to the calls of the brave and wise men of our country Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Lee, Patrick Henry all imbued with a spirit worthy of the little band of Greeks which defended the pass of Thermopylae and their national liberty. They fought and conquered, these doughty sons of Columbia, and their declining years were cheered with the knowledge that the country for which they had struggled so long and at such fearful sacrifices, was now free and her people prosperous and happy. That their deeds of heroism, privation and sufferings were gratefully 10 Introduction. remembered by those who profited most in that hour of supreme national rejoicing, is best shown in the firm, unyielding spirit in which they flung defiance back upon the enemy in the immortal utterances of July 4, 1776. Perhaps no individual of equal advantages, and in the station he occupied, contributed more toward estab lishing the independence of our country than Ethan Allen, of Vermont, unless it be the single exception of John Paul Jones. The mass of people among whom Allen resided were rude and uncultured, yet bold in spirit and insanely zealous in action. It consequently follows that no one but a man of strong, natural endow ments of much decision, energy and bravery-could control their prejudices and inclinations...
