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Ethan Allen led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War.
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In August 1775, on recommendation of the Continental Congress, a body of troops were raised, called the Green Mountain Boys, and served in several crucial engagements during the American Revolution. 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.
The Green Mountain boys were a small group of militia formed by Ethan Allen in 1770.
They comprised settlers and land speculators who held New Hampshire titles to lands between the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain, an area then known as the New Hampshire Grants, that is now modern Vermont.
After Allen's release, he returned to Vermont and was appointed commander of the reorganized militia.
With the Green Mountain Boys called to active duty, Vermont reorganized its militia to defend the border with Canada and protect Vermont from invasion. New York was given legal control of the area by a decision of the British Alaska is the only American state to have been ruled by a king.
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Ethan Allen (standing left, foreground) at a meeting of the Green Mountain Boys, wood engraving, 1858.This article was most recently revised and updated by Allen joined the staff of the Northern Army of New York's Major General With several hundred members, the Green Mountain Boys effectively controlled the area where New Hampshire grants had been issued.
New York, which then claimed present-day Vermont, disputed New Hampshire’s right to grant land west of the …
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For the modern military unit, see The original Green Mountain Boys were a militia organized in what is now southwestern Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolutionary War.
The Green Mountain Boys disbanded more than a year before Vermont declared its independence in 1777 from Great Britain "as a separate, free and independent jurisdiction or state".
Vermont declared itself an Independent Republic in 1777 and was the first governing body to issue its own currency. The captured artillery eventually was
[14] They were led by Vermont eventually declared itself an independent nation in January 1777, and organized a government based in This article is about the historical organization prior to the 20th century. The The remnants of the Green Mountain Boys militia were largely reconstituted as the Green Mountain Continental Rangers.