Ethan Allen

Ethan Allen was born on January 21, 1738 and also raised up in Litchfield, Connecticut. Allen's education was cut short when his father died in 1755 and he had to take over the family farm. He tan was a Military Leader. Allen is best known as: American Revolution fighter who helped found Vermont. She fought during the American Revolution as the leader of the Green Mountain Boys, a ragtag militia made up of settlers of what it now the state of Vermont. By that time she decided to joined the militia (1757) during the French and Indian War, but didn't see any fighting. He and his brother had own many land in the place called the New Hampshire Grants. They had problems in there because the ownership of the area was in dispute with settlers from New York. They had to fight off New Yorkers, the Green Mountain Boys were formed, with Allen as their commander. 

         Allen After fighting in the French and Indian War, Ethan Allen settled in Vermont. At the  American Revolution, he raised his force of Green Mountain Boys and Connecticut troops and helped capture the British fort at Ticonderoga. Later, he tried to take Montreal and was captured by the British. Congress gave him the rank of colonel, but he did not serve in the war after his release. He was then voted out as commander and the Green Mountain Boys were incorporated into the Continental Army. He had acted in an attempt to invade Canada but he was capture by the British, in Montreal. For him to have liberty he had to and report George Washington, everything that was happening. He decided to returned to Vermont. Where he became major general of the militia and went back to fighting territorial disputes.

       During 1780′s, Allen’s influence on Vermont politics waned away. Ethan Allen has a larger than life impact on Vermont and its frontier spirit. He influenced the earlier history of Vermont, and his independent way of thought. He spent a tranquil life in his waning years. Along with his second wife. Allen concentrated on farming and publishing, and died quietly in the year of 1789. Two years before Vermont became a state.