Of the Capture of Ticonderoga: His Captivity and Treatment by the British

Ethan Allen's own account of the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and his subsequent captivity is a window into the raw, unfiltered mind of a revolutionary. Written by the man himself, this narrative captures not just the facts of America's first major military victory, but the fierce conviction that drove ordinary men to seize a fortress from the British. Allen leads his Green Mountain Boys into battle with a combustible mix of righteous anger and frontier audacity, and the result is a story that reads less like history and more like legend made flesh. But it is his imprisonment that burns brightest in these pages. Allen does not spare the reader from the indignities and cruelties heaped upon him by British captors: the chains, the threats, the isolation. He emerges not as a plaster saint but as a living, breathing man who refused to be broken. This is history from inside the fire, and it demands to be read.