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Ethan Allen
(1738—1789) revolutionary army officer and politician in America
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
(1738–1789), American soldier, entrepreneur, writer, and deist.
Allen's Reason the Only Oracle of Man (1784) was
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In the first offensive victory of the
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
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 ...
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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
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
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
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 ...