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Green Mountain Boys

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Green Mountain Boys, popular name of armed bands formed (c.1770) under the auspices of Ethan Allen Allen, Ethan, 1738–89, hero of the American Revolution, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, and promoter of the independence and statehood of Vermont, b. Litchfield (?), Conn.
..... Click the link for more information.  in the Green Mountains of what is today Vermont. Their purpose was to prevent the New Hampshire Grants New Hampshire Grants, early name (1749–77) for Vermont, given because most of the early settlers came in under land grants from Benning Wentworth, the colonial governor of New Hampshire.
..... Click the link for more information. , as Vermont was then known, from becoming part of New York, to which it had been awarded by the British. Land speculators, such as Allen and his brothers, and settlers banded together in armed groups to defend their lands. Their methods were threat, intimidation, and actual violence against the New Yorkers, and they managed to keep the region free from New York control, establishing (1777) instead a separate government that ultimately achieved (1791) statehood for Vermont. In the American Revolution the Green Mountain Boys figured prominently in 1775, when, under Allen's leadership, they captured Ticonderoga. In 1777 Seth Warner and John Stark Stark, John, 1728–1822, American Revolutionary soldier, b. Londonderry, N.H. He fought in the French and Indian Wars. At the start of the Revolution he distinguished himself at Bunker Hill, and he served in the Quebec campaign and with George Washington at
..... Click the link for more information.  led them to victory at Bennington—one of the notable achievements of the revolutionaries in the Saratoga campaign.
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Over drinks I asked Kirk Sale if putting the gloriously, whimsically, seriously localist Vermonters on the same program as mad tinfoil hatters doesn't do the Green Mountain Boys a disservice.
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The band, which fans affectionately call the Green Mountain Boys, does renditions of "My Rose of Old Kentucky," "Country Blues" and "Unwanted Love.
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23 The Green Mountain Boys militia became the armed forces of which state during its 14 years of independence before joining the US in 1791?
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