Review: Vermont’s Ebenezer Allen
byVermont’s Ebenezer Allen: Patriot, Commando and Emancipator by Glenn Fay Jr. (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2021) Ethan Allen, the militia leader who shares credit…
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The Vermont Constitution of 1777
byIf the gunfire at Lexington and Concord was the “shot heard round the world,” the phrases in the Declaration of Independence were the words…
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William Tryon and the Park that Still Bears His Name
byFort Tryon Park, sixty-seven acres just north of the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan, is a bucolic refuge among the skyscrapers of New York…
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The Rebel and the Tory: Ethan Allen, Philip Skene, and the Dawn of Vermont
byThe Rebel and the Tory: Ethan Allen, Philip Skene, and the Dawn of Vermont by John J. Duff, H. Nicholas Muller III, and Gary G….
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Evans & Bean of the Hampshire Grants
byImmediately following the taking of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys in early May 1775, Capt. John Visscher raised a…