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Title: What to see in America
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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kwere a mill and a half dozencabins. After the inflow of settlersbegan, New York and NewHampshire both laid claimto the whole region, andthere ensued much hostilitybetween these colonies. Thesettlers organized underEthan Allen of Benningtonto oppose the New Yorkers,and adopted the name ofGreen Mountain Boys, aname which still endures asthe popular nickname of thepeople of the state. Wlien news of the battle of Lexington reached Vermont,the leading men met at Bennington in the Catamount Tavernand attempted to explore futurity. The result of theirdeliberations was that about one hundred and fifty GreenMountain Boys, together with forty recruits from Massa-chusetts and sixteen from Connecticut, all under the leader-ship of Ethan Allen, captured the stronghold of Ticonderoga.Two years later Burgoynes army made its way down fromCanada, and troops from Vermont, New Hampshire, andMassachusetts gathered to oppose the invaders. A forag-ing force of seven hundred British and one hundred Indians
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A Lake Champlain Ferry 26 What to See in America was attacked August 16 on a hill west of Bennington by theYankee farmers. As Gen. John Stark led a charge he shouted,Those redcoats are ours to-day or Molly Stark is a widow !So vigorous was the onset that the Indians stole away inaffright, and few of the British escaped death or capture.A supporting enemy force of six hundred that arrived later inthe day renewed the battle, but when the sun had set ithastily retreated. Two of the cannon captured in the com- _ bat are to be seen in the State House at jMontpelier. There was a time whensmugglers sailed by night onLake Champlain in armedbands of such strength thatthe revenue officers seldomventured to molest them.One notorious smuggling ves-sel was called the Black Snake.This was finally seized by aparty of militia in the Wi-nooski Gorge. Three of thecaptors were killed in a skir-mish with the smugglers. Schooners and sloops usedto dot the lake, but havebeen increasingly rare since1875. He

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