Today is the birthday Ethan Allen, the American Revolutionary War hero and one of the founders of the state of Vermont. Ethan Allen was born on January 21st, 1738 in Connecticut. As an adult Ethan Allen moved to the New Hampshire Grants, the area that would later become Vermont, and in 1770 he became commander of a local militia, the "Green Mountain Boys." Allen and the Green Mountain Boys fought against the British decree that the area of the New Hampshire Grants belong to New York. Along with Benedict Arnold, Allen commanded the forces that captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May 1775. Later than year Allen was captured by the British during an attack on Montreal. He was shipped overseas to be held as a British prisoner in Cornwall until 1778. When he was freed, Allen returned to Vermont, where he spent the rest of his life fighting to have Vermont recognized as an independent state.
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