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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Robert K Landers, Founding Father (of Vermont); The Green Mountain Boys'
leaders was a rash commander and the author of a popular prisoner-of-war
memoir. Wall Street Journal, Aug 22, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053
111903591104576470112457718714.html
(book review on Willard Sterne Randall, Ethan Allen. Norton, 2011)
Quote: "if Allen wsa a founding father. it was of Vermont, not of the United
States.
Note:
(a) Regarding Lke Camplain.
Samuel de Champlain (French; c1567-1635; "Father of New france")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France
(1534-1763)
in 1609 led an expedition up (thus soutbound) the Richelieu River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richelieu_River
and explored a long, narrow lake which he named after himself as the first
European to map and describe it. Wikipedia
(b) Connecticut River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_River
(It flows south from the Connecticut Lakes in New Hampshire)
(c) The review mentions in paragraph 1 about dispute between New York and
New Hampshire. See the map in
Province of New Hampshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_New_Hampshire
(The Province of New Hampshire is a name first given in 1629; formally
organized as an English crown colony in 1691; The charter was enacted in
1692 by William and Mary, at the same time that the Province of
Massachusetts Bay was created; named after the county of Hampshire in
southern England by Captain John Mason, its first proprietor)
(d) New Hampshire Grants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Grants
(The resulting dispute [between Provinces of New Hampshire and New York] led
to the eventual establishment of the Vermont Republic, which later became
the U.S. state of Vermont.)
(e) Ethan Allen (1738-1789)
Ethan the Ezrahite was an obscure wise man in Bible whom Solomon surpassed
in wisdom (1 Kings 4: 31).
(f) Green Mountains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mountains
(a mountain range of approximately 250 miles (400 km))
(g) scotch (vt; Middle English scocchen to gash):
"1: archaic : CUT, GASH
2: to put an end to "
(h) Sons of Liberty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty
( secret groups; Its name comes from a speech in the British Parliament by
Colonel Isaac Barré referring to the colonials as sons of liberty)
(i) Fort Ticonderoga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga
(introduction and section 4.2 Early Revolutionary War)
Its cannon and mortars were moved by oxcarts to aid George Washington in
Siege of boston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Boston
(April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776; the circled British left by boats to
Canada)
(j) greatcoat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatcoat
(k) tricorne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorne
(or tricorn; the entire page mntions "beaver" only once, in a photo caption:
"Tricorne of beaver fur, c. 1780, Europe or America. Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, M.67.8.204.")
(l) For "deist," see deism (n: Firs Known Use 1682):
"a movement or system of thought advocating natural religion, emphasizing
morality, and in the 18th century denying the interference of the Creator
with the laws of the universe"
(m) Vermont Republic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Republic
(1777-1791; in 1777 both abolished slavery within their boundaries and
declared independence from Provinces of both New Hampshire and New York;
fought the Crown in American Revolution)
They also
slavery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
(In 1777, Vermont became the first portion of what would become the United
States to abolish slavery (at the time Vermont was an independent nation))
(n) string along (vt): "DECEIVE, FOOL
and red herrings — John Powers>
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