Ethan Allen
Vermont Republicans and a Future American Traitor Take British at Fort Ticonderoga 10 May 1775
- Benedict Arnold
- Benedict Arnold
- Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
- Education
- Education
- Essex County, New York
- Ethan Allen
- Ethan Allen
- Family Relation
- Fort Ticonderoga
- Green Mountain Boys
- Lake Champlain
- Military career of Benedict Arnold, 1775-1776
- New Hampshire Grants
- New York
- Seth Warner
- Ticonderoga
- United States
- Vermont
- Vermont
In the early morning hours of May 10th, 1775, a guerilla force from the New Hampshire Grants area (present day Vermont) with a vainglorious co-leader crossed Lake Champlain into New York and took the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga whilst they slept.
Three weeks after Lexington and Concord and on the very day that the Second Continental Congress was to meet in Philadelphia, Ethan Allen (with his brother, Ira, and his cousin, Seth Warner) led the "Green Mountain Boys" from Hands Cove on the eastern side of Lake Champlain to a landing point near Fort Ticonderoga. They had a fellow traveller who tried to assert his control over the party, but seeing him commanding only his own person at the time, the rough Green Mountain Boys decided to only allow the poppinjay to travel as co-leader. His name was Benedict Arnold.
