Subject:  American Minute - May 10 - Ethan Allen & the Green Mountain Boys
Date:  Wed, 9 May 2007 22:07:53 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

May 10

A surprise attack before dawn on MAY 10, 1775, gave America one of
its first victories of the Revolutionary War.

Ethan Allen, who commanded the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont,
captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain without the loss of a man
by overrunning the stronghold in the early morning while the British
were sleeping.

Allen, whose statue is now placed in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary
Hall, demanded immediate surrendered.

The bewildered British captain asked in whose name such a request
was being made.

Ethan Allen responded: "In the Name of the Great Jehovah and the
Continental Congress."

Incredibly, 50 cannons were moved from Fort Ticonderoga to a
position overlooking Boston Harbor, forcing the British ships to
depart.

On May 31, 1775, just three weeks after the victory of Fort
Ticonderoga, Harvard President Samuel Langdon addressed the
Massachusetts Provincial Congress:

"If God be for us, who can be against us?..

May our land be purged from all its sins!

Then the Lord will be our refuge and our strength, a very present
help in trouble, and we will have no reason to be afraid, though
thousands of enemies set themselves against us."



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