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Robert K Landers, Founding Father (of Vermont); The Green Mountain Boys' leaders was a rash commander and the author of a popular prisoner-of-war memoir. Wall Street Journal, Aug 22, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903591104576470112457718714.html
(book review on Willard Sterne Randall, Ethan Allen. Norton, 2011)

Quote: "if Allen wsa a founding father. it was of Vermont, not of the United States.

Note:
(a) Regarding Lke Camplain.

Samuel de Champlain (French; c1567-1635; "Father of New france")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France
(1534-1763)
in 1609 led an expedition up (thus soutbound) the Richelieu River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richelieu_River
and explored a long, narrow lake which he named after himself as the first European to map and describe it. Wikipedia
(b) Connecticut River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_River
(It flows south from the Connecticut Lakes in New Hampshire)
(c) The review mentions in paragraph 1 about dispute between New York and New Hampshire. See the map in
Province of New Hampshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_New_Hampshire
(The Province of New Hampshire is a name first given in 1629; formally organized as an English crown colony in 1691; The charter was enacted in 1692 by William and Mary, at the same time that the Province of Massachusetts Bay was created; named after the county of Hampshire in southern England by Captain John Mason, its first proprietor)
(d) New Hampshire Grants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Grants
(The resulting dispute [between Provinces of New Hampshire and New York] led to the eventual establishment of the Vermont Republic, which later became the U.S. state of Vermont.)
(e) Ethan Allen (1738-1789)

Ethan the Ezrahite was an obscure wise man in Bible whom Solomon surpassed in wisdom (1 Kings 4: 31).
(f) Green Mountains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mountains
(a mountain range of approximately 250 miles (400 km))
(g) scotch (vt; Middle English scocchen to gash):
"1: archaic : CUT, GASH
2: to put an end to <scotched rumors of a military takeover>"
(h) Sons of Liberty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty
( secret groups; Its name comes from a speech in the British Parliament by Colonel Isaac Barré referring to the colonials as sons of liberty)
(i) Fort Ticonderoga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga
(introduction and section 4.2 Early Revolutionary War)

Its cannon and mortars were moved by oxcarts to aid George Washington in
Siege of boston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Boston
(April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776; the circled British left by boats to Canada)

(j) greatcoat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatcoat
(k) tricorne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorne
(or tricorn; the entire page mntions "beaver" only once, in a photo caption: "Tricorne of beaver fur, c. 1780, Europe or America. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.67.8.204.")
(l) For "deist," see deism (n: Firs Known Use 1682):
"a movement or system of thought advocating natural religion, emphasizing morality, and in the 18th century denying the interference of the Creator with the laws of the universe"
(m) Vermont Republic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Republic
(1777-1791; in 1777 both abolished slavery within their boundaries and declared independence from Provinces of both New Hampshire and New York; fought the Crown in American Revolution)

They also
slavery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
(In 1777, Vermont became the first portion of what would become the United States to abolish slavery (at the time Vermont was an independent nation))
(n) string along (vt): "DECEIVE, FOOL <string alonging us along with ruses and red herrings — John Powers>

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.


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