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	Green Mountain Boys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Green Mountain Boys were a paramilitary group organized in Western Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolutionary War.
		By the 1770s, the Green Mountain Boys had become an armed military force and de facto government that prevented the Albany government from exercising its authority in the northeast portion of the Province of New York.
		Some of the Green Mountain Boys preferred to stick with Ethan Allen and were captured along with Allen in August 1775 in a bungled attack on the city of Montreal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_Mountain_Boys (571 words)

	Encyclopedia: Green Mountain Boys
		Green Mountain Boys, was the name of a group of soldiers from Vermont led by Allen, Warner and Arnold.
		The Green Mountain Boys were originally organized by Ethan Allen before the revolution to protest the claims of the New York government to Vermont territory, and were later joined by Seth Warner and Benedict Arnold.
		The New York authorities rejected an appeal that the region be established as a separate province, and Allen organized a volunteer militia, called the Green Mountain Boys, to resist the New York cause.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Green-Mountain-Boys (2092 words)

	Station Information - Green Mountain Boys
		The Green Mountain Boys were a paramilitary force several hundred strong that effectively controlled the area where New Hampshire titles had been issued.
		By the 1770s, the Green Mountain Boys had become an armed military force and de facto government that prevented the Albany government from exercising its authority in the Northeast portion of the colony of New York.
		The Green Mountain Boys/Vermont Army faded away after Vermont eventually joined the United States as the fourteenth state.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/green_mountain_boys.html (476 words)

	Ethan Allen and his "Green Mountain Boys"
		Following rejection by the New York authorities of an appeal that the region be established as a separate province, Allen organized a volunteer militia, called the Green Mountain Boys, to resist and evict proponents of the New York cause.
		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.
		The Green Mountain Boys were originally organized by Allen before the revolution to oppose the claims of the New York government to Vermont territory.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/ALLEN.HTM (540 words)

	AllRefer.com - Green Mountain Boys (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Green Mountain Boys, popular name of armed bands formed (c.1770) under the auspices of Ethan Allen in the Green Mountains of what is today Vermont.
		Their purpose was to prevent the New Hampshire Grants, as Vermont was then known, from becoming part of New York, to which it had been awarded by the British.
		Their methods were threat, intimidation, and actual violence against the New Yorkers, and they managed to keep the region free from New York control, establishing (1777) instead a separate government that ultimately achieved (1791) statehood for Vermont.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GreenMtnB.html (268 words)

	Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, homesteaders in the land that would become the state of Vermont, captured Fort Ticonderoga along with the cannons later to be emplaced in South Boston on Dorchester Heights.
		On May 10, 1775, the Green Mountain Boys took the fort without a shot, so great was the surprise when they arrived after dark.
		At the end, he and his Green Mountain Boys were popularly known as "the damndest Yankees".
	www.southieonline.com /news/ethanallen21802.htm (1101 words)

	Green Mountain Boys -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		The Green Mountain Boys immediately joined the Revolution, and on May 10, 1775, fewer than a hundred of them, under the joint command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, captured Fort Ticonderoga.
		Reorganized despite an ongoing conflict with New York over jurisdiction, the Green Mountain Boys took the field against General John Burgoyne in 1777, playing central roles at the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington.
		Other Green Mountain Boys, under Allen's mercurial leadership, continued an internal war against “Yorkers,” a campaign Allen is said by some accounts to have pursued to the point of negotiating for Vermont's return to British allegiance.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9037953 (999 words)

	.::GREEN MOUNTAIN RANGERS::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Green Mountain Rangers were founded in northern New England, and their name is derived from and pays tribute to two bands of soldiers hailing from this area.
		The Green Mountain Boys were Vermont men organized to fight New York tax collectors and protect the ownership of the lands within the New Hampshire Grants.
		The Green Mountain Rangers exercise in Tolland, Massachusetts.
	www.gmrangers.org /history.html (664 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Vt. / Anonymous donor contributes flags to Bennington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Green Mountain Boys flew the flag on Aug. 16, 1777, when they fought under Gen. John Stark at the Battle of Bennington.
		The green represented their name and the 13 stars were a tribute to the 13 colonies at the time of the American Revolution.
		The canton of a Green Mountain Boys flag, or "Stark Flag" as it is also known, hangs in the Bennington Museum, said Patty Duffy, a museum education staffer.
	www.boston.com /news/local/vermont/articles/2004/07/12/anonymous_donor_contributes_flags_to_bennington (445 words)

	Historical Flags - Green Mountain Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's green field represented their name and the thirteen white stars a tribute to the thirteen colonies.
		A notable victory of the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen, occurred on the morning of May 10, 1775, when they silently invaded the British held Fort Ticonderoga and demanded its surrender "In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress".
		The captured cannon and mortars were transported across the snow covered mountains of New England and their installation on the heights over Boston Harbor enabled Washington to force the British to leave that important seaport.
	www.anyflag.com /history/greenmt.htm (120 words)

	Fort Ethan Allen: Who was Ethan Allen?
		Ethan Allen is the historical leader of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys and has been enshrined in Vermont folklore as a hero.
		The Green Mountain Boys were initially formed to defend the settled citizens in the disputed territories between modern New Hampshire and modern New York, who had settled under New Hampshire grants and needed defense from aggression by New York.
		Besides fighting along with the American troops in the Revolutionary War, the Green Mountain Boys were responsible for protecting the new republic of Vermont and its citizens.
	personalweb.smcvt.edu /thefort/History/EthanAllen.htm (637 words)

	Green Mountain Boys -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Green Mountain Boys began in 1770 at present-day Bennington, Vermont, as an unauthorized militia organized to defend the property rights of local residents who had received land grants from New Hampshire.
		In the same year he was elected lieutenant colonel of the Green Mountain Boys, a regiment of...
		Describes mountain characteristics, and provides travel information and data about the country where it is located.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037953 (810 words)

	Green Mountain Boys
		The Green Mountain Boys were founded at Bennington (now in Vermont) in 1770 to resist a sheriff's party sent out from New York to expel settlers who had received grants from New Hampshire.
		When conflict with Britain broke out in 1775 the leader of the Green Mountain Boys, Ethen Allen, decided to attack Fort Ticonderoga, a British stronghold that had been allowed to decay after 1763.
		The Green Mountain Boys were also involved in the campaign that led to the surrender at Saratoga in 1777.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/weapons_greenmountain.html (280 words)

	Green Mountain Boys on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		popular name of armed bands formed (c.1770) under the auspices of Ethan Allen in the Green Mountains of what is today Vermont.
		In 1777 Seth Warner and John Stark led them to victory at Bennington—one of the notable achievements of the revolutionaries in the Saratoga campaign.
		JOURNEY TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE GODSA classic boy's own holiday adventure; For the creator of Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War and the Alex Rider spy series, a once-in-a-lifetime bonding holiday to Peru with his teenage...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/GreenM1tnB1.asp (543 words)

	The Green Mountain Boys - Rosters
		Green Mountain Boys pp 813, 814, 815, 816, 827, 831 and 836.
		West of the Range of Green Mountains, convened at the house of Mr.
		Peter T. Curtenius be requested to purchase coarse green Cloth for that purpose and red Cloth suffi- cient to face those Coats and to have two hundred and twenty-five coats of a large size made of the said Cloth.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/revwar/NH/greenmountain_roster.html (1205 words)

	Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
		Ethan Allen was the eldest of six brothers, four of whom, with himself, emgrated to the fertile territory of the Green Mountains, which stretches along almost the entire length of Lake Champlain on its eastern border.
		The Green Mountain Boys, under the judicious guidance of Ethan Allen, carefully acted on the defensive, and never pursued aggressors beyond the claimed limits of the Grants.
		Allen had with him one hundred Green Mountain Boys, and with these he resolved to proceed to St. John's, garrison the fort, and hold it, if possible as the key to Canada; for doubtless the idea of an invasion of that province had already assumed a tangible form in his mind.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/revwar/NH/ethanallen.html (14101 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This arrangement of the ambuscade enabled the Green Mountain Boys to have a cross-fire on the Yorkers without endangering themselves; and they were instructed to hold themselves in readiness to commence the attack in case the sheriff forced the door, the signal to be a red flag hoisted above the chimney top.
		As these forts were located near the homes of the Green Mountain Boys, and their hardy courage fitted them for a duty of this kind, requests were sent simultaneously from several of the provinces to Ethan Allen* and his followers to surprise and capture those places.
		A regiment of Green Mountain Boys, five hundred strong, was decreed, and the people of the Grants were notified of the resolve, and requested to raise the regiment.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/tgmb0000.html (15624 words)

	Green Mountain Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Green Mountain Boys (aka Green Mountain Boyes) were a paramilitary group organized in Western Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolution.
		By the 1770s, the Green Mountain Boys had become an armed military force and de facto government that prevented the Albany government from exercising its authority in the NorthEast portion of the state of New York.
		Although Vermont initially supported the American revolution and sent troops to fight Burgoyne's British at Hubbardton and Bennington in 1777, Vermont eventually adopted a more neutral stance and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies.
	www.termsdefined.net /gr/green-mountain-boys.html (589 words)

	Green Mountain Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Governor threatened to drive Vemonters off their farms and into the Green Mountains and that is how the Green Mountain boys got their name.
		The boys put out a proclamation that they wrote in Poultney declaring a bounty on the cowardly schemers of New York.
		The Green Mountain boys with help from Massachusetts and Connecticut fought against British forts such as Ticonderoga and crown point on the New York side of Lake Champlain.
	www.westrutlandschool.org /projects/GreenMountainBoys.htm (195 words)

	Green Mountain Boys Flag (U.S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is known as the "Green Mountain Boys" flag, and there seems to be no dispute over its claimed use during the 1770's.
		The Green Mountain Boys were a part of the New Hampshire militia during the Revolutionary War.
		Earlier, under Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, the Green Mountain Boys (from the hills of Vermont and New Hampshire) took Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
	flagspot.net /flags/us-gmb.html (220 words)

	Ethan Allen History: Green Mountain Boys
		The Green Mountain Boys were a citizens' militia founded in Fay's Tavern in Bennington in 1770.
		However, this group of Yankee Vigilantes was very instrumental in resisting New York's claims to land in what is now Vermont.
		It is worth noting that the Green Mountain Boys took no lives.
	www.ethanallenhomestead.org /HISTORY/greenmountainboys.htm (116 words)

	The Mountain Boys
		The fatherless boy grew up in his grandfather’s home and with the companionship of cousin Ethan and the soldiers at the fort, until September 11th, 1755, when at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Northern army and served through most of the French and Indian War.
		Of the three mountain boys from Roxbury, the poorest was Seth Warner.
		In the autumn of 1858 his remains were brought to the Green in the center of town, and by the spring of 1859 an obelisk of Quincy granite was erected.
	home.earthlink.net /~agless/Allen.htm (6788 words)

	The Green Mountain Boys of Summer / edited by Tom Simon \| BaseballLibrary.com
		The Green Mountain Boys of Summer / edited by Tom Simon
		Among the dozen Hall-of-Fame catchers for whom numbers are available (complete statistics don't exist for Negro Leaguer Josh Gibson), Carlton Fisk ranks first in total games caught, putouts, at-bats, hits, and doubles; second in total home runs and runs scored; third in RBI; and tied for fourth in fielding percentage.
		From Green Mountain Boys of Summer: Vermonters in the Major Leagues 1882-1993.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/excerpts/green_mountain_fisk8.stm (441 words)

	Ticonderoga and Crown Point
		The immediate object of the attack on the British Forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on May 10 and 11, 1775 was first to capture the forts themselves, but also to obtain a cannon and supplies to use for the impending seige of Boston.
		Seth Warner, was born in Connecticut and later moved to Vermont, where he was declared an outlaw in 1771 for forcibly resisting a New York claim to the area, and had a reward offered for his capture.
		Later that year, he was elected lieutenant-colonel commandant of the Green Mountain Boys.
	www.studyworld.com /newsite/ReportEssay/History/American/Ticonderoga_and_Crown_Point-36744.htm (480 words)

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