Green Mountain Boys

(noun)

A militia organization first established in the late 1760s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants (which later became the state of Vermont).

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Examples of Green Mountain Boys 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.
    • 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.

  • Discontent on the Frontier

    • Early frontier areas east of the Appalachian Mountains included the Connecticut River valley.
    • Although there had been no Indian attacks in the area, the Paxton Boys claimed that the Conestoga secretly provided aid and intelligence to the hostiles.
    • On December 14, 1763, more than fifty Paxton Boys marched on the Conestoga homes near Conestoga Town, Millersville, murdered six people, and burned their cabins.
    • It prohibited the North American colonists from establishing or maintaining settlements west of a line running down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains.
    • Nineteenth century lithograph of the Paxton Boys' massacre of the Indians at Lancaster, published in 1841

  • Setbacks for Unions

    • Between May and September 1921, an outbreak of violence near Matewan, West Virginia, grew to fighting on a 25-mile front between Stone Mountain Coal Company militia and thousands of United Mine Workers members.
    • Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) died in 1924 after serving as its president for 37 years, while successor William Green, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, "lacked the aggressiveness and the imagination of the AFL's first president."
    • Workers, including an 11-year-old boy holding his coat, outside the Loray Mill in Gastonia, N.C.

  • The Western Lands

    • The Royal Proclamation of 1763 prohibited the North American colonists from establishing or maintaining settlements west of a line running down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains.
    • In December of 1763, following the end of the French and Indian War and the signing of the proclamation, a vigilante group made up of Scots-Irish frontiersmen known as the Paxton Boys attacked the local Conestoga, a Susquehannock tribe who lived on land negotiated by William Penn and their ancestors in the 1690s.
    • Although there had been no American Indian attacks in the area, the Paxton Boys claimed that the Conestoga secretly provided aid and intelligence to the hostiles.
    • On December 14, 1763, more than 50 Paxton Boys marched on the Conestoga homes near Conestoga Town, Millersville, and murdered six people and burned their cabins.
    • Although Great Britain won control of the territory east of the Mississippi, the Proclamation Line of 1763 prohibited British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

  • Georgia and South Carolina

    • British attempts to raise Loyalists in North Carolina were effectively crushed when a Patriot militia defeated a large force of Loyalists in the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780.
    • General Gates was replaced by George Washington's most dependable subordinate, Continental General Nathanael Greene.
    • Greene proceeded to wear down his opponents in a series of operations referred to as the "Race to the Dan", named for the Dan River that flows near the border between North Carolina and Virginia.
    • In the late spring of 1781, Greene led the Siege of Ninety Six in an attempt to secure the village of Ninety Six, South Carolina.
    • Nathanael Greene, supported by 2,600 troops, engaged 2,000 British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Stewart.

  • Degrees of Neutrality

    • Hitler did indeed plan to invade Switzerland, but Switzerland had formed complex fortifications and amassed tens of thousands of soldiers in the mountains to thwart any Axis invasion.
    • Because of the extreme mountainous conditions in Switzerland, Hitler decided to bombard Great Britain rather than engage in a costly war with Switzerland.
    • Green: neutral status, recognized by constitutions and international society; pink: neutral status not recognized by international society; orange: formerly neutral states

  • The War on Terror

    • The remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants fell back to the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, mainly Tora Bora.
    • Major contributors (over 1000 troops) in dark green, other contributors in light green, and former contributors in magenta.

  • The Peace of Paris

    • France also ceded the eastern half of French Louisiana to Britain; that is, the area from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains.
    • Green: France, Spain with more.

  • Rock and Roll

    • Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early "acid casualties"; the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream broke up; and many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into more back-to-basics "roots rock", the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-laden heavy rock.

  • The Ku Klux Klan

    • Simmons at Stone Mountain, outside Atlanta, Georgia.
    • The Klan’s national leader, Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans, sold the organization in 1939 to James Colescott, an Indiana veterinarian, and Samuel Green, an Atlanta obstetrician.