Green Mountain Boys

American  

plural noun

1. the soldiers from Vermont in the American Revolution, originally organized by Ethan Allen around 1770 to oppose the territorial claims of New York.

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Green Mountain Boys British  

plural noun

1. the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence

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Example Sentences

Ethan Allen, the self-taught leader of the Green Mountain Boys, insisted that the inhabitants of these other earths included intelligent beings just like us.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2015

In the pre-dawn hours of May 10, 85 descendants of Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen and his followers, the Green Mountain Boys, will raft across Lake Champlain from Hands Cove, Vt., to retake Fort Ticonderoga.

From Time Magazine Archive

He and Irregular Ethan Allen, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, easily surprised and captured Ticonderoga.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seems that Ethan Allen, 38, the argumentative hero of Fort Ticonderoga, is giving almost as much trouble to the British as he did when he was commander of the Green Mountain Boys.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sorrowfully the Green Mountain Boys relinquished, with almost as little bloodshed as two years before they had gained it, the fortress that guarded the frontier of their country.

From Vermont A Study of Independence by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)