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This weekend marks 250 years since Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British, marking the first victory in the Revolutionary War.
Today, we mark the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys on May 10, 1775. It was the first offensive victory for American forces in the Revolutionary War and ...
celebration kicks off Friday with a real-time march across Vermont, as reenactors retrace the journey of the Green Mountain Boys — Ethan Allen’s militia — to Fort Ticonderoga. Along the way ...
Eager to seize Fort Ticonderoga before the British garrison ... Almost simultaneously, Connecticut leaders urged native son Ethan Allen to move on the fortress. Allen had moved to the Hampshire ...
Fort Ticonderoga is planning several events to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Revolutionary War. The first starts May 9th and coincides with the anniversary of Ethan Allen’s capture of ...
TICONDEROGA — On May 10, 1775, Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys rowed across Lake Champlain and seized the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga — delivering the ...
As Revolutionary War leader of the Green Mountain Boys militia, Ethan Allen had seemingly no sooner captured Fort Ticonderoga from British troops on May 10, 1775, when he put quill pen to ...
“We need to rally together with Ethan Allen and his forces, and we need to go and take Fort Ticonderoga, now!” he declared. A debate then ensued among the re-enactors as to whether it was wise to join ...
Shouts of “No Quarter!” in the wee hours of May 10 scared the British soldiers and their wives 250 years ago as the Green ...