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See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born at See also:Litchfield, See also:Connecticut, on the loth of See also:January 1739. He removed, probably in 1769, to the " New See also:Hampshire Grants," where he took up lands, and eventually became a See also:leader of those who refused to recognize the See also:jurisdiction of New See also:York, and contended for the organization of the " Grants " into a See also:separate See also:province. About 1771 he was placed at the See also:head of the " See also:Green See also:Mountain Boys," an irregular force organized for resistance to the " Yorkers." On t'he loth of May 1775, soon after the out-break of the See also:War of American See also:Independence,"in command of a force, which he had assisted some members of the Connecticut See also:assembly to raise for the purpose, he captured See also:Ticonderoga from its See also:British See also:garrison, calling upon its commanding officer—according to the unverified See also:account of Allen himself—to surrender " in the name of the See also:great See also:Jehovah and the See also:Continental See also:Congress." See also:Seth See also:Warner being elected See also:colonel of the " Green Mountain Boys " in See also:July 1775, Allen, piqued, joined See also:General See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Schuyler, and later with a small command, but without See also:rank, accompanied General See also:Richard See also:Montgomery's expedition against See also:Canada. On the 25th of See also:September 1775 near See also:Montreal he was captured by the British, and until exchanged on the 6th of May 1778 remained a prisoner at See also:Falmouth, See also:England, at See also:Halifax, Nova See also:Scotia, and in New York. Upon his See also:release he was brevetted colonel by the Continental Congress. He then, as brigadier-general of the See also:militia of See also:Vermont, resumed his opposition to New York, and from 1779 to 1783, acting with his See also:brother, Ira Allen, and several others, carried on negotiations, indirectly, with See also:Governor See also:Frederick See also:Haldimand of Canada, who hoped to win the Vermonters over to the British cause. He seems to have assured Haldimand's See also:agent that " I shall do everything in my See also:power to make this See also:state a British province." In See also:March 1781 he wrote to Congress, with characteristic bluster, " I am as resolutely determined to defend the independence of Vermont as congress that of the See also:United States, and rather than fail will retire with the See also:hardy Green Mountain Boys into the desolate caverns of the mountains and wage war with human nature at large." He removed to See also:Burlington, Vermont, in 1787, and died there on the Iith of See also:February 1789. He was, says See also:Tyler, "a blustering frontier hero—an able-minded See also:ignoramus of rough and ready See also:humour, of boundless self-confidence, and of a shrewdness in thought and See also:action equal to almost any emergency." Allen wrote a Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity (1779), the most celebrated See also:book in the " See also:prison literature " of the American revolution; A Vindication of the Inhabitants of Vermont to the See also:Government of New York and their Right to See also:form an See also:Independent State (1779); and See also:Reason, the Only See also:Oracle of See also:Man; or A Compendious See also:System of Natural See also:Religion, Alternately adorned with Confutations of a Variety of Doctrines incompatible with it (1784).
Ethan's youngest brother, IRA ALLEN (1751–1814), born on the 21st of See also:April 1951 at See also:Cornwall, Connecticut, also removed to the New Hampshire Grants, where he became one of the most influential See also:political leaders. In 1775 he took See also:part in the See also:capture of Ticonderoga and the invasion of Canada. He was a member of the See also:convention which met at See also:Winchester, Vermont, and in January 1777 declared the independence of the New Hampshire Grants; served (1776–1786) as a member of the Vermont See also:council of safety; conducted negotiations, on behalf of Vermont, for a truce with the British and for an See also:exchange of prisoners, in 1781; served for eight terms in the general assembly, and was statetreasurer from 1778 to 1786 and surveyor-general from 1778 to 1787. In 1789, by a See also:gift of £4000, he made possible the See also:establishment of the university of Vermont, of which institution, chartered in 1791 and built at Burlington in deference to his wishes, he was thus virtually the founder. In 1795, on behalf of the state, he See also:purchased from the See also:French government arms for the Vermont militia, of which he was then the ranking See also:major-general, but he was captured by a British cruiser See also:west of See also:Ireland on his return See also:journey, was charged with attempting to furnish insurrectionary Irish with arms, and after prolonged litigation in the British courts, the See also:case not being finally decided until 1804, returned to Vermont in 18oi. During his See also:absence he had been dispossessed of his large holdings of See also:land through the operation of tax See also:laws, and to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape imprisonment for See also:debt, he removed to See also:Philadelphia, where on the 4th of January 1814 he died. He published a dull and biassed, but useful Natural and Political See also:History of Vermont (1798), reissued (187o) in vol. i. of the Collections of the Vermont See also:Historical Society.
There is no adequate See also:biography of Ethan Allen, but See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall's Ethan Allen (New York, 1892) may be consulted. The best See also:literary estimate may be found in M. C. Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution (2 vols., New York, 1897).
End of Article: ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
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