On this day in 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, New York.
Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed to perpetual slavery, in consequence of yielding up to tyrants their natural born liberties, I read with a sort of philosophical horror; so that the first systematical and bloody attempt at Lexington, to enslave America, thoroughly electrified my mind, and fully determined me to take part with my country.
Ethan Allen
From the American Battlefield Trust's series, The Revolutionary War in Four Minutes, Fort Ticonderoga curator, Matt Keagle explains the details of this pivotal event ...
Further details at the Battlefield Trust's site.
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