Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, 1775
Allen standing with the Green Mountain Boys examining map. The Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in the late 1760s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants (which later became the state of Vermont). Headed by Ethan Allen, they were instrumental in resisting New York's attempts to control the territory, over which it had won de jure control in a territorial dispute with New Hampshire. During the American Revolutionary War the Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen, captured Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775. In early June of 1775, Ethan Allen and his then subordinate, Seth Warner, induced the Continental Congress at Philadelphia to create a Continental Army ranger regiment from the then New Hampshire Grants. Having no treasury, the Congress directed that New York's revolutionary Congress pay for the newly authorized regiment. Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738 - February 12, 1789) was a farmer, businessman, philosopher, patriot, hero, and politician.
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