The Hero of Ticonderoga; Or, Ethan Allen and His Green Mountain Boys

In the bitter January cold of 1764, the people of Bennington gather to hear an edict from New York: submit to the colonial governor's claim over their land, or face the consequences. Ethan Allen, a man of iron wit and stubborn conviction, answers by tearing the proclamation to pieces in the town square. This act of defiance ignites the gathering storm that will forge the Green Mountain Boys into a legendary militia. John De Morgan's late-19th-century tale captures the raw frontier spirit and fierce independence that defined Vermont's earliest days as a contested territory caught between rival colonial powers. The narrative follows Allen's transformation from hotheaded rebel to the commander who would famously demand the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. For readers who love historical adventure, early American folklore, and stories of ordinary people standing against distant authority.