. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . two men and the Boys came upon Ticonderoga when the gar-rison were fast asleep without a thought of dan-ger. The commander was suddenly aroused bya demand to Surrender ! He jumped out ofbed, not more than half awake, and said, Towhom ? By whose authority ? In the nameof the Great Jehovah and the Continental Con-gress, roared Ethan Allen, and the fort was sur-rendered. This was only three weeks after thebattle of Lexington. On that same day, the Second Continental Con- giess was meeting in Philadelphia. John Hancock, whom the k
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . two men and the Boys came upon Ticonderoga when the gar-rison were fast asleep without a thought of dan-ger. The commander was suddenly aroused bya demand to Surrender ! He jumped out ofbed, not more than half awake, and said, Towhom ? By whose authority ? In the nameof the Great Jehovah and the Continental Con-gress, roared Ethan Allen, and the fort was sur-rendered. This was only three weeks after thebattle of Lexington. On that same day, the Second Continental Con- giess was meeting in Philadelphia. John Hancock, whom the king was so anxious to catch, was made president. Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, and his cousin John Adams, Patrick Henry, the great patriotic orator, and Washington, were all members of this Congress. They knew that war must come, and they adopted the forces around Boston as the Continental Army. A commander-in-chief must be chosen, and every one remembered how skillfully Wash- Continental Army organ-ington had saved part of Braddocks army at Fort Duquesne ized. ETHAN ALLEN (From the statue in the Vermont State House, Montpelier) 144 OUR COUNTRYS STORY
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