. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. nental Congress. The bewildered Englishmen immediately compliedwith this forcible requirement, and the Americans capturedtwo officers, forty-
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. nental Congress. The bewildered Englishmen immediately compliedwith this forcible requirement, and the Americans capturedtwo officers, forty-eight soldiers, one hundred and twenty (3l^ ^^ ^ large quantity of small arms. Thissuccess also wrested the control of the GreenMountains from the English. Allen continued to aid in redeeming thecolonies from British dominion, and the samt-year was taken prisoner and sent to few months later he was sent back toAmerica and treated as a felon, being most ofthe time heavily shackled, until May. 1778. whenhe was exchanged. Ipon his release hewas warmly received by Washington and Con-gress. The land controversy between the coloniescontinuing, Allen was made a General, and,subsequently, was sent as an agent of Vermontto explain the course of that state to then arose between the statesand the British authorities, but Allen wasenabled, by political strategy, to keep hisadherents unmolested until near the end oft
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