Introduction
Green Mountain Boys is an editorial that is about a historical union that proceeded to the 20th century. It consisted of an armed force that was first established in the 1760s between two regions of the British provinces which were land speculators and settlers who apprehended the New Hampshire region and the New York region (Brown and Moyers 13). Since the Green Mountain Boys had a good number of its members estimated to be hundreds of hundreds, they effectively took control over the area that was issued by the Hampshire grants (Bliven 35).
Leadership among the Green Mountain Boys
Ethan Allen who was born on January 21, 1738, in Litchfield, Connecticut who was declared a fugitive by the royal governor of New York due to his involvement in the struggle for the control of the new York and new Hampshire region after turning down the petition by the New York authorities to establish a separate province in the region. To fight against this course, he formed a volunteer militia which was known as the Green Mountain Boys which kept on gaining power. By the year the 1770s they had formed a very strong-armed military force that was able to control the government of Albany from implementing its power especially at the northeastern part of New York province (Shalhop 43).
The Vermonters and authorities of New York
When the authorities of New York noticed this, they gave out strong demands for the capture of people who were influential among the Vermonters seditious. Unfortunately, they were not capable of implementing their power. Instead, the inspectors of New York and some of their officials were flattened up quite a lot of times and those that were issued with allowances were forced out of their land with their belongings damaged.
The Revolutionary war and removal of Ethan Allan from power
The revolutionary war broke in 1775, together with the Green Mountain boys and the support of Benedict Arnold who was a Connecticut soldier, Ethan fought against the British soldiers into the Lake Champlain and took over the most significant positions in the military at Fort Ticonderoga on 10th May 1775 as per the orders that were given t him by the Connecticut legislature (Bliven 77). After that, the Green Mountain Boys formed the base of the Vermont militia (Brown and Moyers 255).
The Vermont militia after some time elected a new leader by the name of Seth Warner. However, to some of the Green Mountain Boys, this was not good so they decided to join and follow up Ethan Allan instead of Seth Warner. Those who followed Ethan Allan in August the year 1775 were taken into custody together with Ethan Allan in a failed assault of the city of Montreal (Shalhop 54).
Conclusion
Vermont in the end confirmed itself as an independent nation in the year 1777 January. It then started to organize itself to structure a well-controlled government that was based at Windsor. Since the Vermont Republic depended mostly on the Green Mountain Boys, in 1777 the disputes that existed between them ended up in the development of a new Republic of Vermont and the Green Mountain Boys formed the new Republic of militia. However later during the war of the American Revolutionary, some of their corporations were involved. Due to the access of Vermont’s into the merger in the year 1791, the original association was disbanded and the Green Mountain Boys became mustered once more in civil war, the war of the year 1812, and also the war between the Americans and the Spanish.
Works Cited:
Bliven, Bruce The American Revolution (Landmark Books). New York, NY: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1981.
Brown, Slater and Moyers, William. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys (Landmark Books, 66). New York, NY: Random House, 1956.
Shalhop, Robert. E. Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys: The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850 (Reconfiguring American Political History). Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.