Category: History - American
Stephen A. Douglas has been credited with the remark that Vermont is an excellent place to emigrate from. Though small in area, with a surface singularly broken by mountain ranges, wracked by frosts and covered with snows five months of the year, yet her internal economy has p...
Stephen A. Douglas has been credited with the remark that Vermont is an excellent place to emigrate from. Though small in area, with a surface singularly broken by mountain rang...
2. CHAPTER II.Vermont, as has been well said, was born in the midst of tumult and the clash of arms. No other State, we can safely affirm, came up out of such tribulation. Her experience is t...
3. CHAPTER III.On the return of Mr. Allen to Bennington, the people met in convention, and passed a resolution to support their rights and property by force, inasmuch as justice was denied the...
4. CHAPTER IV.The spirit of opposition and resentment had risen so high because of the events recorded in the preceding chapter, that New York was led to adopt the most stringent measures of...
5. CHAPTER V.Colonel Allen collected the documents relative to the several grants of the Crown, including that to the Plymouth Colony, to Lord Say and Seal, to the Duke of York, and some oth...
6. CHAPTER VI.It must not be supposed, however, that in the overshadowing event of the great drama of the Revolution, the disputed claims to jurisdiction over Vermont were entirely forgotten....
7. CHAPTER VII.On the night of the 17th of April, 1755, a lantern was hung out from an upper window of the North Church of Boston. Never did the beams of a tallow dip go forth on more momentou...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Although these dashing exploits met with the unqualified approval of public sentiment throughout the country, yet Congress for a time wavered as to the disposition of the captur...
9. CHAPTER IX.This disastrous retreat exposed the frontiers of the Grants to an invasive war; most of the inhabitants of Onion River and along the shore of Lake Champlain instantly removed, a...
10. CHAPTER X.The British were of opinion that the people of the Grants were opposed to the Revolution, and would join the standard of England the moment a force was marched into the territor...
11. CHAPTER XI.Brilliant and signal as had been the feats of these Vermonters with the sword, not less so were their acts of diplomacy. One can but be impressed with the spectacle of a handful...
12. CHAPTER XII.Years elapsed. Hostilities between Great Britain and the American Colonies had ceased; and on the 20th of January, 1783, the preliminary articles of peace were signed, which est...