Ethan Allen

(noun)

A farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician; he is best known as one of the founders of the state of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolutionary War.

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Examples of Ethan Allen in the following topics:

  • Fort Ticonderoga

    • The capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War when a small force of Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold, overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison.
    • Ethan Allen and other patriots in the disputed New Hampshire Grants territory also recognized the fort's value, as it played a role in the dispute over that area between New York and New Hampshire.
    • Arnold departed immediately after receiving his instructions and reached the border between Massachusetts and the Grants, where he learned of the recruitment efforts of the Connecticut Committee and that Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys were already on their way north.
    • As dawn approached, Allen and Arnold became fearful of losing the element of surprise, so they decided to attack with the men at hand rather than wait for reinforcements.
    • An 1875 print by John Steeple Davis giving an idealized and inaccurate depiction of Ethan Allen demanding the fort's surrender.

  • Deism

    • Other notable Founding Fathers may have been more directly Deist, such as James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Ethan Allen, and Thomas Paine.

  • The Beats

    • Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S.
    • Many of the original Beats remained active participants, notably Allen Ginsberg, who became a fixture of the anti-war movement.
    • Allen Ginsberg, one of the main authors in the Beat Generation, with Bob Dylan in 1975.

  • Nativism

    • Allen had founded a Nativist society called the "Order of the Star Spangled Banner" in New York City.

  • Television

    • Comedy stars with their own shows included: Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Burns and Allen, Jack Benny,Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis, and Groucho Marx who starred in his quiz show You Bet Your Life.
    • The Tonight Show debuted in 1954 with Steve Allen as host.

  • The Southern Renaissance

    • The group included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and others.
    • Beyond Faulkner, playwright Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie), author Robert Penn Warren (All the King’s Men), and others including Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, and Allen Tate were classified as Southern Renaissance writers.

  • Theatre and Novels

    • Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S.
    • Many of the original Beats remained active participants, notably Allen Ginsberg, who became a fixture of the anti-war movement.

  • The Eisenhower Administration

    • Eisenhower, working with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles, intensified CIA activities under the pretense of resisting the spread of communism in poorer countries.
    • In 1954, he sent Allen Welsh Dulles as a delegate to the Geneva Conference, which ended the First Indochina War and temporarily partitioned Vietnam into a Communist northern half (under Ho Chi Minh) and a non-Communist southern half (under Ngo Dinh Diem).

  • The Clinton Administration Moves Right

    • Republican George Allen won the Virginia governorship.

  • Youth Culture and Delinquency

    • The bus was driven by Beat icon Neal Cassady, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was onboard for a time, and they dropped in on Cassady's friend, Beat author Jack Kerouac.