When the American Revolutionary War started in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel Benedict Arnold, marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important military posts at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George, all in New York.

Legal setbacks led to the formation of the Green Mountain Boys, whom Allen led in a campaign of intimidation and property destruction to drive New York settlers from the Grants.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Allen and the Boys seized the initiative and captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.

Friction with the provincial government rose notably when, in October 1771, Allen and a company of Boys drove off a group of Scottish settlers near Rupert.

Governor Tryon and the Boys exchanged threats, truce offers, and other writings, which were frequently written by Allen in florid and didactic language, while the Boys continued to drive surveyors and incoming tenants on New York-granted lands away.

By March 1774, the harsh treatment of settlers and their property by Allen and the Boys prompted Tryon to increase some of the rewards to £ 100.

Allen, whether motivated by patriotic impulses ( as he describes in his account of the events ), or by the realization that the action might improve the political position of his side in the grants disputes, agreed to help, and began rounding up the Green Mountain Boys.

By May 7, these men joined Allen and 130 Boys at Castleton.

On June 22, Allen and Seth Warner appeared before Congress in Philadelphia, where they argued for the inclusion of the Green Mountain Boys in the Continental Army.

* Duane Allen, member of The Oak Ridge Boys

* January 7 – Ira Allen, founder of Vermont and leader of the Green Mountain Boys ( born 1751 )

** American Revolution: Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, leading the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, capture Fort Ticonderoga.

Ethan Allen then went to Westminster with a band of Boys, and organized a convention calling for the territory's independence from New York.

Some of the Green Mountain Boys preferred to stick with Ethan Allen and were captured along with Allen in August 1775 in a bungled attempt to capture the city of Montreal.

* Ethan Allen History: Green Mountain Boys

During the American Revolutionary War, the fort again saw action in May 1775 when the Green Mountain Boys and other state militia under the command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured it in a surprise attack.

On May 10, 1775, less than one month after the American Revolutionary War was ignited with the battles of Lexington and Concord, the British garrison of 48 soldiers was surprised by a small force of Green Mountain Boys, along with militia volunteers from Massachusetts and Connecticut, led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold.

This group generally consists of those who were playing during the " Golden Age " in the 1950s, including Wade Mainer and his Mountaineers, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, the Stanley Brothers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys, Hylo Brown and The Timberliners, Ervin T. Rouse, who wrote the standard " Orange Blossom Special ", Reno and Smiley, the Sauceman Brothers, Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, Red Allen ( who also recorded with the Osborne Brothers for MGM in the mid-fifties ), Mac Wiseman, Mac Martin and the Dixie Travelers, Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, Buzz Busby, The Lilly Brothers, Bill Clifton and Jim Eanes.

* EMI Classics: Elisabeth Söderström, Robert Tear, Thomas Allen ; CBSO Chorus ; Boys of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

As a result, a number of Pownal residents joined the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen.

It was named for Ira Allen, brother of Ethan Allen, who fought with the Green Mountain Boys of the Revolutionary War.

Allen traveled into the northern parts of the Grants early in 1775, as was his custom, for solitude and to hunt for game and land opportunities.

Following his visit to Valley Forge, Allen traveled to Salisbury, arriving on May 25, 1778.

Allen, after being promised land, traveled to the area and began stirring up not just Pennsylvania authorities but also his long-time nemesis, Governor Clinton of New York, by proposing that a new state be carved out of the disputed area and several counties of New York.

On February 11, 1789, Allen traveled to South Hero, Vermont with one of his workers to visit his cousin, Ebenezer Allen, and to collect a load of hay.

A. Allen were faith healers who traveled with large tents for large open-air crusades.

Dole had been a star high school athlete in Russell, and influential Kansas basketball coach Phog Allen traveled to Russell to recruit him to play for the basketball team.

In 1760, sponsored by Smith and William Allen, reputed to be the wealthiest man in Philadelphia, West traveled to Italy where he expanded his repertoire by copying the works of Italian painters such as Titian and Raphael.

In 1885, Lt. Henry T. Allen and four others left the Gulf of Alaska, followed the Copper River, crossed a mountain range, and traveled down the Tanana River to the Yukon, and portaged to the Kanuti and Koyukuk rivers.

After gaining super-speed by replicating the electrochemical bath that gave Barry Allen his powers-even undergoing surgery to make himself look like Barry -, he traveled backward in time using the Cosmic Treadmill to meet his hero.

After gaining super-speed by replicating the electrochemical bath that gave Barry Allen his powers, losing years of his life in the process-even undergoing surgery to make himself look like Barry-he traveled backward in time using the Cosmic Treadmill to meet his hero.

After defeats from various heroes, including the Flash ( Barry Allen ) and Supergirl sacrificing themselves to destroy an antimatter cannon and to save Superman respectively, the Anti-Monitor absorbed the entirety of the antimatter universe and traveled to the beginning of time, intending to stop the formation of the positive matter Multiverse and to create a Multiverse where antimatter prevailed.

Allen traveled along the southeastern banks of the Richelieu River, up to Sorel, where he crossed that river and continued up the southern shore of the St. Lawrence to Longueuil.

Allen and Brown traveled through the parishes between St. Jean and Montreal, where they were well-received, and even provided with local guards.

Mayanism occasionally draws upon references from Beat generation literature by William Burroughs, who had studied the ancient Maya in classes with Alfred Tozzer at Harvard in the 1930s, and Allen Ginsberg, who traveled in the Yucatan Peninsula, Chiapas, and Guatemala in the 1950s.

Less than a week after the Westminster convention ended, while Allen and the committee worked on their petition, the American Revolutionary War began.

In 1751 Brown dedicated to Allen his Essay on the Characteristics of Lord Shaftesbury, containing an able defence of the utilitarian philosophy, praised later by John Stuart Mill ( Westminster Review, vol.

His father, also James Allen, drowned in an accident in 1690, after which his mother, Elizabeth, moved the family to Westminster and remarried.

Born in Hayling Island, Hampshire as the eldest child of Sarah Georgina Megaw and her husband James Allen Bell ( the vicar of the Island, and later a canon at Norwich Cathedral ), Bell was elected as a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School in 1896.

Fuller attended seminary studies at Allen Hall, St Edmund's College, Ware, Hertfordshire from 1926 – 1931 and was ordained priest by Cardinal Bourne at Westminster Cathedral in 1931.

Return through New England, stopping for a visit to Lake Champlain where you can take a boat ride and go to Ethan Allen Park.

and, in contrast, are present to a relatively immense degree on a segmental basis in the dog where lobules are absent ( Van Allen and Lindskog, '31 ).

Curtis Allen Huff, 41, of 1630 Lake Av., Wilmette, was arrested yesterday on a suppressed federal warrant charging him with embezzling an undetermined amount of money from the First Federal Savings and Loan association, 1 S. Dearborn St., where he formerly was employed as an attorney.

On May 2, 60 men from Massachusetts and Connecticut met with Allen in Bennington, where they discussed the logistics of the expedition.

Rather than attempt an ambush on those troops, which significantly outnumbered his tired company, Allen withdrew to the other side of the river, where the men collapsed with exhaustion and slept without sentries through the night.

At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.

By the end of October, Allen was again off New York, where the British, having secured the city, moved the prisoners on-shore, and, as he was considered an officer, gave Allen limited parole.

) Allen personally escorted some of those convicted under the law to Albany, where he turned them over to General John Stark for transportation to the British lines.

A book edited by Allan Hunt Badiner called Dharma Gaia explores the ground where Buddhism and ecology meet through writings by the Dalai Lama, Gary Snyder, Thich Nhat Hanh, Allen Ginsberg, Joanna Macy, Robert Aitken, and 25 other Buddhists and ecologists.

He stopped first in Buffalo, New York, where his uncle, Lewis W. Allen gave him a clerical job.

Friedman was initially unable to find academic employment, so during 1935, he followed his friend W. Allen Wallis to Washington, where Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was " a lifesaver " for many young economists.

In 1943, Friedman joined the Division of War Research at Columbia University ( headed by W. Allen Wallis and Harold Hotelling ), where he spent the rest of World War II working as a mathematical statistician, focusing on problems of weapons design.

After graduation, Allen attended Washington State University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity but dropped out after two years in order to work as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston, placing him near his old friend again.

American Revolutionary War patriot and hero Ethan Allen wrote " In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased ; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Allen has described the film as " a major turning point ", which, unlike the farces and comedies that were his work to that point, introduced a level of seriousness where, he says, he " had the courage to abandon ... just clowning around and the safety of complete broad comedy.

American deist Ethan Allen demonstrates this thinking in his work, Reason the Only Oracle of Man ( 1784 ) where he argues in the preface that nearly every philosophical problem is beyond humanity ’ s understanding, including the miracles of Christianity, although he does allow for the immortality of an immaterial soul.

* Scenes where Tim Allen battles a giant rock monster called " Gorignak " in the 1999 film Galaxy Quest were filmed at Goblin Valley State Park.

After completing multi-engine flight training in November 1946, Allen was assigned to Strategic Air Command's 7th Bombardment Group at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, where he flew B-29 Superfortress bombers, and then the new and very long-range Convair B-36 bomber.

General Allen then was assigned to the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as a physicist in the Test Division, where he became acquainted with the bomb designer Ted Taylor.

In 1956 he moved to General Atomics, where he directed Project Orion, with his friend Lew Allen as contract manager.

Founded in 1895 from the estate of the Chicago real estate investor Allen Cleveland Lewis, Lewis Institute stood where the United Center now stands.

The South Atlantic Anomaly ( SAA ) is an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface dipping down to an altitude of 200km ( 124mi ).