Ethan Allen, the Robin Hood of Vermont

The biography traces the life and public career of Ethan Allen, examining his family background, early beliefs, and migration to the New Hampshire Grants, and recounts his leadership of the Green Mountain Boys in resistance to New York authorities. It details planning and execution of the raid on Fort Ticonderoga, subsequent campaigns toward Canada, his defeat and capture, imprisonment overseas, and later return to American service. The narrative reproduces Allen's correspondence with legislative bodies and contemporaries, explores controversies over his character and religious views, and follows his postwar activities, death, and the contested remembrance and monuments that shaped his legacy.