Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain

Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution

The story of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont and their role in the American Revolutionâ€”the myth and the reality. A rare look at a corner of the Revolutionary War.

In Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. They were ruffians who joined the rush for cheap land on the northern frontier of the colonies in the years before the American Revolution. Allen did not serve in the Continental Army but he raced Benedict Arnold for the famous seizure of Britainâ€™s Fort Ticonderoga. Allen and Arnold loathed each other. General George Washington, leery of Allen, refused to give him troops. In a botched attempt to capture Montreal against specific orders of the commanding American general, Allen was captured in 1775 and shipped to England to be hanged. Freed in 1778, he spent the rest of his time negotiating with the British but failing to bring Vermont back under British rule.

Based on original archival research, this is a groundbreaking account of an important and little-known front of the Revolutionary War, of George Washington (and his good sense), and of a major American myth. Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom is an important contribution to the history of the American Revolution.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781416599555
ReleaseDate 2018-05-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416599555

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781416599555
ReleaseDate	2018-05-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416599555

Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution

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