Backwoods, bold, brave, flamboyant, hero, independent. Ethan Allen has been described with many words like these since before and after his heath. Ethan, born in 1738 on January 21, was the eldest child of Joseph and Mary Allen. In total, the Allen family had eight children: Ethan, Heman, Heber, Levi, Zimri, Ira, Lydia, and Lucy. Out of all of the Allen children, Ethan was the most successful and, quite obviously, the most memorable. When Ethan was one, his family moved from Litchfield to Cornwall, Connecticut. At the very young age of seventeen, Ethan’s father, Joseph died, making Ethan have to quit school. Two years later, Ethan joins the Litchfield County Militia and fights in the French and Indian war. At twenty-three years old, Ethan creates …show more content…
He then creates the Green Mountain Boys, a group of over one-hundred-and-twenty militia settlers, most of which are from Vermont, Connecticut, New York, and New Hampshire. Together the Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga, a British fort in New York, south-west of Lake Champlain. The Boys yearned to take the fort, as the surplus of cannons and ammunition was greatly needed by the patriot armies. However, Allen’s men were not the only ones attempting to take Fort Ticonderoga. An officer from Massachusetts named Benedict Arnold was asked by the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to take the fort. They later decided to team up and take it because they knew that they would be stronger together. Ethan was still the leader of the large, now one-hundred-and-fifty person, group of men. The men faced another problem: the fort was on the other end of the lake, and to get across that lake, Allen had to find boats. Allen only found two boats, merely big enough to hold eighty men total. At sunrise, the men silently rowed across, and took the fort. The British were completely surprised, and the Green Mountain Boys succeeded. Not a single shot was fired, and no soldiers were killed from either side. By the end of the takeover, Allen was met by a startled, and pants-less, British lieutenant that demanded to know in whose name he had dared attack the fort. Allen then replied: “In the name of …show more content…
Ethan was in the process of making plans to invade Canada, and more specifically, Montreal. He naively believed that, with the Green Mountain Boys, he could easily take the city of Montreal, which is one of the biggest cities in Canada. He later thought that he could capture all of Canada. Ethan soon convinced most of the Continental Congress that invading Canada was a good idea. However, some did not believe that Ethan was the right leader for the mission. The Continental Congress then talked to the New York Provincial Congress to urge them to speak with General Philip Schuyler about his army joining the Green Mountain Boys. Allen was unhappy upon hearing that his army was not considered strong enough to take Canada by themselves. Ethan then became overeager with the fact that he would have to wait to get an approval to invade Canada with General Schuyler’s troops, so he gathered one-hundred men and decided to launch his own attack on Montreal. On September 25, 1775, Allen and his small band of men began marching towards Montreal, attempting to, one again, catch the British by surprise. Except, this time the British were ready. Allen’s troops were attacked by three-hundred British soldiers, and their Native American allies. Much of Allen’s troops fled, and many more were captured, including Allen. This was the beginning of Ethan’s two-and-a-half year ordeal
Joseph Plumb Martin was born in 1760 just as the American Revolution was about to dawn. Martin never commanded large bodies of troops in battle: he never told major political offices. He never engaged in vital diplomatic negotiations, and he never invented anything of consequence or made a notable scientific discovery. He never acquired great wealth to distribute as a renowned philanthropist. Martin was very much just an ordinary person who, according to one of his admires, had “acquired a fund of knowledge, which with his lively social disposition and ready wit made him a highly entertaining and instructive companion. The winter of this year passed off without any very frightening alarms,
Still No one could touch him, Major Patrick Ferguson's force was defeated at the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7. Cornwallis became increasingly concerned about Marion, so as a result he dispatched the feared Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton to destroy Marion's command. With nicknames like “Bloody Man” or “Butcher” Lieutenant Colonel Banastre was not the best choice to mess with, even after the “Waxhaw’s Massacre” slaughtering hundreds. Tarleton was told intelligence spilling Marion’s location. Closing on Marion's camp, Tarleton hunted for the patriot for seven hours and across 26 miles before stopping in swampy territory and stating, "As for this damned old fox, the Devil himself could not catch him."
...ropriately name The Darkest Hour. This chapter follows up on the final two months of 1776. This was when the American Revolution looked to be almost lost. The American Army was in New Jersey severely undermanned and lacking supplies. McCullough is able to capture the struggles of the Americans retreat in New Jersey. As it progressively got worse, the British decided to go for a different look. General Clinton was order to go to New Port with six thousand troops. The American capital was beginning to feel the pressure of the British moving in on them. In New Jersey, Washington was losing troops; loyalist were more common in New Jersey than anywhere else. The winter of 1776 was miserable compared to the year before with the exclusion of one event. On Christmas Eve of 1776, Washington crossed his army through the Delaware River and attacked a camp of Hessian soldiers.
The Allies now commanded the high position overlooking the Douai Plain, an occupied portion of France that was controlled by Germany. The determination Canadians brought to the battle on that Easter morning is something that will never be forgotten not only by Canadians, but by other countries as well as they noticed that Canada was unafraid to get involved in war efforts. Soldiers conveyed to the world on that day, that Canada was not to be pushed around anymore, for they bore a huge conviction towards defence of what is right and
When Ethan was (is) young, he wants to leave the town to go to college. However, Ethan had to stay in the town with his sick mother. In addition, Ethan met Zeena when she came to his house to nurse his mother. After his mom passed away, Ethan
Ethan Frome, a novella written by Edith Wharton, communicates a story of Ethan and his life living with his ill wife, Zeena, when a new lover comes into his home. Ethan and Zeena live in a place called Starkfield, a cold and lonely location situated in the New England area. Mattie comes into Ethan’s life to help her cousin, Zeena, around the house as her sickness has obstructed her ability to do housework. This causes problems for Ethan because he starts to fall in love with Mattie as she stays with the Fromes. The isolation of Starkfield prevents Ethan from living his life the way he wanted to. That causes Ethan to abandon his dreams of college and moving away from Starkfield. Ethan becomes hindered by the isolation of Starkfield because of
When Washington got there, the French claimed that they owned the land and refused to give it up. Washington reported this to Governor Dinwiddie, and was ordered to go back and construct a fort so they could defend their territory if there was a war against the French. While constructing a fort, named Fort Necessity, Washington and his men shot a small group of French men, because they would not leave the area. It turned out that they had shot French spies. A few days later, the French attacked the unfinished fort which resulted in Washington losing a third of his army.
From the beginning of the story, society opposed Ethan Frome in any ways. To begin with, he was a prisoner with his wife, Zeena. Just because Zeena took care of his mother as she was dying, Ethan felt like she was the woman for him. However, when Zeena’s cousin Mattie came to live with them, he instantly fell in love with her, and felt nothing but audacity towards his wife. When Zeena goes away due to her illness, Ethan and Mattie sit at home planning their future ahead of them. He plans to elope and run away with Mattie, but he cannot lie to his neighbors, Mr and Mrs. Hale in order to achieve the money he needs. In the end, Ethan decides to abandon life itself along with his true love Mattie. Ethan was a prisoner to poverty. When he was young, he wanted to leave his family farm in order to move to a larger town to become an engineer. However, that plan backfired and he was trapped in Starkfield for life. Society does not want Ethan to be happy for he committed adultery and treated his wife like she didn’t matter. The gravestones in his yard are a reminder t...
Clark, during the 1770’s, was helping Kentucky defend itself from Native Americans. At the time, Clark was transporting gunpowder to the frontier between the Americans and the British. The Native Americans, who lived in the Northwest, disliked the Americans in the Northwest and their claim on Kentucky and with the British backing, waged war with the Americans. Clark was now in charge of defending the settlements and was promoted to major. Clark then made plans in taking British held forts in the region and persuaded Governor Patrick Henry to support him in capturing the forts. Clark had won the support of Patrick Henry, was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and was given command of the mission (“George Clark” 1). With the command of the mission, Clark had lead 175 men who traveled to Fort Kaskaskia, Illinois in six days. The fort was almost defenseless and was easily taken with Clark’s force. Clark had sent Captain Leonard Helm to capture Fort Sackville, after learning that the fort was undefended from American spies. Leonard Helm had then captured the fort, but was taken back by Henry Hamilton shortly after. Henry Hamilton, the famous British “Hair Buyer”, used militia and Native Americans to take Fort Sackville. In the winter, Clark lead a force of 170 men ...
...a out into the harbor. Then a few years later in 1775 soldiers were told there was an armory in concord and marched to it. While marching they came across minute men who are not soldiers but will fight to protect their homes.
Although most of the inhabitants of Nova Scotia were New Englanders, they refused to join the Thirteen Colonies in 1775 and 1776 in an attempt to break connections with the British. They did not want to break the precedence the British left; they would instead trail a policy of neutrality. Ironically, it was the same neutrality in which the Acadians believed in; the same one the New Englanders looked down upon in the first place. With the settlement of the New Englanders in Nova Scotia, one question was meant to be answered: Why did Nova Scotia not join the Thirteen Colonies in attempt to break ties with the British in 1775 and 1776? The article discusses three theories that were created to answer the question.
In September 1758, General Jeffery Amherst attacked Louisburg, the frontier fortress of Canada. Major General James Wolfe was second in command. There was only two years difference between the too men. The Fort on Cape Breton Island was the key to the gateway of the St Lawrence River. (Britannica vol. 8) Whoever held the fort had the key to the heart of Canada.
During the Revolutionary War, Aaron and I accompanied General Benedict Arnold's expedition into Canada in 1775, a difficult trek of over 500 miles in the middle of winter. Upon arriving before the Battle of Quebec, we were sent up the St. Lawrence River to make contact with General Richard Montgomery, who had taken Montreal, and escort him to Quebec. Montgomery liked the Aaron, and promoted him to Captain and added him to his staff as an aide-de-camp. After Montgomery was killed and the advance party thrown into confusion, Burr single-handedly gathered some of the soldiers and began an attack on the British lines. Overwhelmed by cannon fire, we were forced to retreat. Burr carried the body of Montgomery a short distance before retreating from the field. Our courage made us a national hero and earned us a place on Washington's staff in Manhattan, but we quit after two weeks because we wanted to return to the field.
The men sent a summons to Daniel, wanting him to surrender the fort. They decided not to surrender, even though they were outnumbered. Daniel and his men supposedly held the attack off and made them siege and depart. Daniel and all the other men that traveled to Kentucky were harassed all the time by the Indians. They fought all they time, but they never gave up.
During the American Revolution, the French sent about 12,000 soldiers and around 32,000 sailors to the New World to help the American war effort ("France Allied with American Colonies"). Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier otherwise known as Marquis de Lafayette was the biggest French captain that would be involved in the Revolution. Although he was important in many other important events and wars with his own country, France, his role in winning American independence gave him the most fame (“Marquis de Lafayette”). The main strategy thought of by the Continental Congress and its generals was to use French army and navy to slowly start taking out the existing British on land and at sea. George Washington thought that this one-by-one plan would eventually defeat King George’s forces in America ("American Revolution, French Alliance, Siege of Yorktown"). The first direct French military support to get to America was in July 1778. The first group was a military expedition force of 4,000 soldiers and 16 ships. They were under the command of Comte d’Estaing. The first couple attempts to mount a joint American-French military ended in failure. The failures were thought to be due to cultural differences and communication issues between the new allies ("American Revolution, French Alliance, Siege of Yorktown"). The only action of importance where the Colonists and the French fought together with success in the end was the capture of Yorktown (Perkins 1). Although the two militaries were having trouble fighting together, the French continued to send money and supplies. The year 1780 was probably the lowest point in the American struggle to win independence. The British had taken over New York, Charleston, and South Carolina. They did this all after a brief siege in May. At this point the British were also on the verge of taking over the Carolinas ("American Revolution, French