CROWN POINT.
"Colonel, an army is approaching."
Ethan Allen at once thought that a regiment of English was about to try and wrest the fort from him.
He was agreeably disappointed when he saw that the men were his own Green Mountain Boys, led by Seth Warner.
Warner had been doing good work in Vermont, and, finding it advantageous to join his chief, he had marched his men to Ticonderoga.
A warm welcome was accorded the captain and his men, and Allen at once gave the command of the operations against Crown Point to Seth Warner.
The fortifications at Crown Point were erected at a cost of ten million dollars, and up to that time had never a shot been fired from them.
Trusting to the strength of the stone barracks and the extensive earthworks, England had kept only a small force at the fort, and at the time of the capture of Ticonderoga only a sergeant and twelve men composed the garrison.
Seth Warner was delighted at the honor conferred upon him by his chief.
Ethan Allen had a reason for keeping as strong a garrison at Ticonderoga as possible, for he feared that Delaplace might try to escape and perhaps recapture the fort.