Ethan Allen And The Green-Mountain Heroes Of ’76, With A Sketch Of The Early History Of Vermont, By Henry W. De Puy … Buffalo: Phinney & Co., 188 Main Street 1858, with gilt lettering and gilt decorations on the spine, embossed brown boards, blank endpapers with “F. Daniel Phoenix” inscribed on the front paste-down, an oval portrait of Ethan Allen on the title page, and dated 1855 on the copyright page. There are five pages of Contents (v - ix), a seven-page Introduction (xi - xvii) and the text runs from page 19 through 428, with an illustration of “Old Ticonderoga” opposite page 214, for a total of 428 pages in the book, and the book was never issued with a dust jacket. This is a biography of Ethan Allen (1738 - 1789), Revolutionary War hero and one of the founders of the state of Vermont. He captured Fort Ticonderoga early in the war and sent the cannons from the fort overland in the snow to help defend Boston against the British. In 1775, he tried to capture Montreal, but was captured himself and imprisoned on a Royal navy ship, and later released in a prisoner exchange. He and his brothers bought land which later became Burlington, Vermont, and he was instrumental in Vermont becoming the fourteenth state of the Union. (After the war, he petitioned to have Vermont become a state; that failed, so he tried to have Vermont become part of Canada, which failed as well, but his actions helped Vermont become the fourteenth state in 1791, two years after Allen’s death.) The book is a third edition - the first edition was published in 1853 - it is 8vo. and measures 7 5/8 x 5 1/4 in. wide, the binding is clean and tight, with rubbing at the tips, some wear at the crown, very light bumps at the heel, and two tips turned in, and the pages are exceptionally clean. #57 #1713