ETHAN ALLEN
When Ethan Allen, the Green Mountain Boy, broke into Fort Ticonderoga at the head of a handful of followers and demanded its surrender, its bewildered and still sleepy Commandant began to stutter out a very natural inquiry as to the authority in whose name Allen acted. History has recorded Allen’s grandiloquent reply: In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress! (But certain old Vermonters will have it that his actual words were, Here, come out of that, you old rascal and give us the fort, quick, or we’ll smoke you out like rats!)