Ethan Allen

He engineered the fortress The damn t He'll defend it till He is not. . . Come on out, you old rat! That's what Ethan Allen called out to the commander of Fort Tike on Derogher in 1776. Come on out, you old rat! Of course, there are only 40-odd redcoats at Tike on Derogher, but. . . There is one Ethan Allen story that I'm very partial to. No, you're going to tell a story. I don't believe that I can bear to listen to another one of your stories right now. I need to be in those side yard schedules for Alexandria. I asked for them t It was right after the revolution, right after peace had been concluded. And Ethan Allen went to London to help our new country conduct The English sneered at how rough we are and rude and simple-minded and un To one day he was invited to the townhouse of a great English lord. Dinner was served, beverages imbibed, time passed as happens, and Mr. Allen found he needed the privy. He was grateful to be directed then. Relieved, you might say. Now, Mr. Allen discovered on entering the water closet that the only decoration therein was a portrait of George Was Ethan Allen done what he came to do and returned to the drawing room. And finally Allen had he noticed it in the picture of Was Well, what did he t Did it seem appropriately located to Mr. Allen? Mr. Allen said it did. Its host was astounding. Appropriate? George Washington's Yes, said Mr. Allen. Where it'll do good service. The whole world knows not I love that story.