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Ethan Allen, the Robin Hood of Vermont

Chapter 2: PREFACE.
By Henry Hall
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The biography traces the life and public career of Ethan Allen, examining his family background, early beliefs, and migration to the New Hampshire Grants, and recounts his leadership of the Green Mountain Boys in resistance to New York authorities. It details planning and execution of the raid on Fort Ticonderoga, subsequent campaigns toward Canada, his defeat and capture, imprisonment overseas, and later return to American service. The narrative reproduces Allen's correspondence with legislative bodies and contemporaries, explores controversies over his character and religious views, and follows his postwar activities, death, and the contested remembrance and monuments that shaped his legacy.

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Title: Ethan Allen, the Robin Hood of Vermont

Author: Henry Hall

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ETHAN ALLEN

The Robin Hood of Vermont

BY

HENRY HALL

RUINS OF TICONDEROGA

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1892

Copyright, 1892,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

PREFACE.

At the time of the death of Mr. Henry Hall, in 1889, the manuscript for this volume consisted of finished fragments and many notes. It was left in the hands of his daughters to complete. The purpose of the author was to make a fuller life of Allen than has been written, and singling him from that cluster of sturdy patriots in the New Hampshire Grants, to make plain the vivid personality of a Vermont hero to the younger generations. Mr. Hall's well-known habit of accuracy and painstaking investigation must be the guaranty that this "Life" is worthy of a place among the volumes of the history of our nation.

Henrietta Hall Boardman.