john, and then down lake champlain to get to fort ticonderoga. all of new england new what was going on. they stormed the fort. they took everyone prisoner. no one was hurt. no one was killed. they found 90 gallons of rum that belonged to the coma daunt. they had a party. a sendoff of 85 prisoners and 60 women and children to connecticut. now, part of what i've had to do is sort of de bunc that attack. it's what ethan allen supposedly said at the lake, and he wrote the line himself several years later. i guess he figured he couldn't get it through the printer, but by whose authority do you come? ethan allen said in the name of jehovah and the continental congress, but according to a young man there what he really said was come out of you you damned old rat. [laughter] it sounds more believable. [laughter] well, it didn't go down well with some of the vermonters. they were afraid that the british would counterattack, and allen actually was stripped of his command shortly after this by the town elders of the vermont settlements. he had been commiss