Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen was an important person in American History. ... Allen was the leader of a group of men from, what is now, Vermont known as the “Green Mountain Boys”. ... Allen became an American officer because he was greatly known as the leader of the “Green Mountain Boys”. ... Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold were urging the Continental Congress to push the war into Canada, because they believed it was weak. After Allen told the government “some things of importance”… The congress ordered General Philip Schuyler to go immediately through Lake Champlain and take the St John on the Richelieu River. ... After this, on May 10, 1775, Allen took around 500 American soldiers to Fort Ticonderoga. Benedict Arnold was supposed to be leading this, but Allen’s “Green Mountain Boys” refused to serve under anyone but Allen.