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Ethan Allen

(1738—1789) revolutionary army officer and politician in America

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Allen, Ethan

Allen, Ethan (1738–1789)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

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2005
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History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
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(1738–1789), American soldier, entrepreneur, writer, and deist.

Allen's Reason the Only Oracle of Man (1784) was

Allen, Ethan

Allen, Ethan (1738–89)   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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2002

In the first offensive victory of the Revolutionary War, Allen led his Green Mountain Boys in a bold surprise attack on ...

Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold  

(1741–1801)American soldier and traitor. He was a hero of the early stages of the War of Independence, serving with conspicuous valour at Ticonderoga, the invasion of Canada, and Saratoga Springs. ...
Fort Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga  

A stronghold during the Revolutionary War, in New York on Lake Champlain. It was built by the French in 1755, during the French and Indian War (1754–63), on a vital ...
Green Mountain Boys

Green Mountain Boys  

An army organized in Vermont by Ethan Allen in 1770, originally to oppose territorial expansion from New York and subsequently influential in the Revolutionary War, especially in taking Fort ...
John Brown

John Brown  

Revolutionary War army officer, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Brown assisted in campaigns with Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold and led a recapture of Fort Ticonderoga from Gen. John Burgoyne ...
Reason the Only Oracle of Man

Reason the Only Oracle of Man  

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Deistic book attributed to Ethan Allen, published in 1784. Later scholarship has contended that, though the work has been popularly known as Ethan Allen's Bible, approximately four-fifths of it was ...
Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga  

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A frontier fortress in New York, USA, commanding the Champlain‐Hudson valley between Lake Champlain and Lake George. Built by the French as Fort Carillon in 1755, it held out against British attack ...

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