Those turbulent sons of freedom : Ethan Allen's Green Mountain boys and the American Revolution

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Label

Those turbulent sons of freedom : Ethan Allen's Green Mountain boys and the American Revolution

Title remainder

Ethan Allen's Green Mountain boys and the American Revolution

Statement of responsibility

Christopher S. Wren

Creator

• Wren, Christopher S., (Christopher Sale), 1936-

Author

• Wren, Christopher S., (Christopher Sale), 1936-

Subject

• American Revolution (1775-1783)
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
• HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
• History
• Militia
• New York (State) -- Ticonderoga
• New York (State) -- Ticonderoga
• Ticonderoga (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
• Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789
• United States
• United States
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Regimental histories
• Vermont
• Vermont
• Vermont -- History -- To 1791
• Vermont -- Militia
• To 1791
• Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"The story of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont and their role in the American Revolution--the myth and the reality. A rare look at a corner of the Revolutionary War. In Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. They were ruffians who joined the rush for cheap land on the northern frontier of the colonies in the years before the American Revolution. Allen did not serve in the Continental Army but he raced Benedict Arnold for the famous seizure of Britain's Fort Ticonderoga. Allen and Arnold loathed each other. General George Washington, leery of Allen, refused to give him troops. In a botched attempt to capture Montreal against specific orders of the commanding American general, Allen was captured in 1775 and shipped to England to be hanged. Freed in 1778, he spent the rest of his time negotiating with the British but failing to bring Vermont back under British rule. Based on original archival research, this is a groundbreaking account of an important and little-known front of the Revolutionary War, of George Washington (and his good sense), and of a major American myth. Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom is an important contribution to the history of the American Revolution"--

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Biography type

contains biographical information

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DLC

Dewey number

973.3/443

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography