The Hero of Ticonderoga; or, Ethan Allen and His Green Mountain Boys

by John De Morgan

Copyright, 1896
By NORMAN L. MUNRO
The Hero of Ticonderoga

Table of Contents

Chapter
I.	[At the Courthouse]
II.	[The Green Mountain Boys]
III.	[A Child of Nature]
IV.	["The Rising of the Moon"]
V.	[Defiance]
VI.	[Before the Governor]
VII.	[An Ambuscade]
VIII.	[The Convention]
IX.	[Treachery]
X.	[Zeb's Double Dealing]
XI.	[The Tables Turned]
XII.	[The Opening of the War]
XIII.	[Benedict Arnold]
XIV.	[Arnold's Powers of Fascination]
XV.	[The Hero of Ticonderoga]
XVI.	[The Temptation]
XVII.	[Crown Point]
XVIII.	["Who is Commander?"]
XIX.	[News from Boston]
XX.	[A Roadside Adventure]
XXI.	[The Continental Progress]
XXII.	[Eben's Adventures]
XXIII.	[Foraging]
XXIV.	[Secret Service]
XXV.	[Diplomacy]
XXVI.	[An Interesting Experiment]
XXVII.	[A Prisoner]
XXVIII.	[On the Gaspee]
XXIX.	[Arrival in England]
XXX.	[Irish Hospitality]
XXXI.	[A Daring Swim]
XXXII.	[How England Treated Prisoners of War]
XXXIII.	[Beverly Robinson's Offer]

THE HERO OF TICONDEROGA.

CHAPTER I.

AT THE COURTHOUSE.

It was a cold, bleak and freezing day, was that second day of the year 1764, in the good town of Bennington.

The first day of the year had been celebrated in a devout fashion by nearly all the inhabitants of the district. Truly, some stayed away from the meeting-house, and especially was the absence of one family noticed.

"It seems to me kind of strange and creepy-like that those Allen boys will never come to meeting," good old Elder Baker had said, and the people shook their heads, and were quite ready to believe that the Allen boys were uncanny.