john and then down lake champlain to get to ticonderoga. all knew what was going on. allen and ira stormed the fort. they took everyone prisoner. no one was hurt. no one was killed. they found 90 gallons of rum that belonged to tcommandant. e than allen wrote out a chip that he would pay the commandant at some future time and he sent off 85 prisoners and 60 women and children to connecticut. now, part of what i've had to do is sort of debunk that attack that one of the most famous lines in early american history is what ethan allen supposedly said to the commandant at ticonderoga, and he wrote the line himself several years later. i guess he figured he couldn't get the real thing through the printer and what became said is by whose authority do you demand it? he said in the name of jehovah and the continental congress, but according to a young man who was there and the british subat earn whoey hoo said was come out of there you damned old rat which sounds a little bit more believable. well, it didn't go down well with some of the vermonters. they were afraid that the

if we know anything about ethan allen, usually it's only that he took fort ticonderoga wherever that is and however you spell it and they're joined by some mystical cord, but we know little else about him and that is why i wrote this book. i lived for over 25 years in vermont. aware he's become a mythical figure and part of what i've had to do is peel away the layers of athology and find out what the real ethan allen was like. to vermonters, he's part paul bunyan, part davey crocket and two part jack daniels. as soon as i said i was writing about ethan allen i saw a gesture i had never seen before, oh, ethan allen. ethan allen and that seems to be the part that vermonters are proudest of. they know little beyond that, even in schools. ethan allen, among other things, i found, to start out with a little summary. in addition to take the most formidable fort in british america with only 89 men and without firing a shot, he was the first published american diest philosopher. he organized 29 communities to defend the new hampshire grants as they were called. it still wasn't a vermont agai