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| | Ethan Allen and his "Green Mountain Boys" |
 | | Ethan Allen, (1738-89), patriot of the American Revolution, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, and champion of statehood for Vermont. |
 | | On the basis of this activity he was charged with treason, but, because the negotiations were demonstrably intended to force action on the Vermont case by the Continental Congress, the charge was never substantiated. |
 | | In 1775, on the verge of war, the Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, with reinforcements from Massachusetts and Connecticut, seized British-held forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on Lake Champlain in New York. |
| www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/ALLEN.HTM (540 words) |
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