Green Mountain Boys

Green Mountain Boys

Green Mountain Boys (spr. Grihn Maunt'n Boihs), eine Freischaar, die sich Anfang der siebenziger Jahre des 18. Jahrh. im Staate New Hampshire bildete, als die Streitigkeiten dieses Staates mit New York um den Besitz von Vermont ausbrachen; ihr Anführer war Ethan Allen.


Pierer's Lexicon. 1857–1865.

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