and he's conducting these covert negotiations with ethan allen.as i say at up with point in the book -- at one point in the book, he's a decent man in an indecent business. because this is, you know, real kind of skull skull dug erie. but i think i portray him -- i admire the guy in many ways, i think he was an admirable character. and there are others. one of the things i do also, i hope, is restore some interest in the part of americans in french-canadians because some of these french-canadian figures, including the villains, are just fantastic characters. they do extraordinary things. i'll mention my favorite villain who's this french, he's this french-canadian. he shows up in three of these wars. he, the -- he becomes the real bogeyman of the americans because he was a brilliant leader of indians from different tribes, but he could get them to do what he wanted them to do. he may have been responsible for the fort william henry massacre, there's disputes about what exactly his role is. after canada falls to the british, he decides he's going t

there were a series of negotiations conducted by ethan allen. not the furniture company.e rather outside speaker from vermont history. which take place in 1780-1780 one. there is a fantastic intelligence story in all this which is in the chapter. the americans get wind of this because it is all over vermont. it is reported back and washington is brought into this and he writes a letter to the governor of vermont who is ferry much part of these negotiations. and the letter reads like something out of -- i hate to say it -- michael corleone. it would be a truly awful thing if all of the state had to turn on one of their brothers because that would be the order grew and of that state. [laughter] that is all he had to say. other than that we are with the united states of america. the other one is -- the other phantom campaign takes place before that and that is the second invasion of canada. first invasion failed in 76 for a variety of reasons. there was an idea about one in 78 which was a really serious consideration. the second invasion in seventeen 79 was the idea that a f

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