This Day in History: Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

ILLUSTRATIONS: Two interpretations of Ethan Allen's confrontation with the commander of Fort Ticonderoga when he ordered him to surrender.

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Great share, thank you Brother. My wife and I are going to Boston later this summer and I plan on seeing a large number of the Historic sites from the Revolutionary period. The area is so rich in history.

Fr the article: On the morning of May 10 (1775), Ethan Allen led a relatively small contingent of his men across Lake Champlain to Fort Ticonderoga. He later described, in his own words, what happened next:
“The garrison being asleep, except the sentries, we gave three huzzas, which greatly surprised them. One of the sentries made a pass at one of my officers with a charged bayonet, and slightly wounded him. My first thought was to kill him with my sword; but, in an instant, I altered the design and fury of the blow to a slight cut on the side of the head, upon which he dropped his gun, and asked quarter, which I readily granted him, and demanded of him the place where the commanding officer kept. . . . The Captain came immediately to the door, with his breeches in his hand, when I ordered him to deliver me the fort instantly; he asked me by what authority I demanded it: I answered him, ‘In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.’”
MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
This paragraph was interesting to me for several reasons. Ethan Allen had quickly altered his response to not killing the sentry, which I see as God’s decision that it was not that man’s particular time to leave the Earth. How fortunate for him. Wonder what he did with the rest of his life? Then, Allen invoked “the great Jehovah” as part of his authority for taking charge of the fort. Jehovah יְהֹוָה is the proper name of God used by the Jews in the Ancient times. (Exodus 6:3). Jehovah means "the unchanging, eternal, self-existent God,” a very weighty proclamation.

How differently and more consequential our early American leaders / Fathers thought of the Judeo-Christian God than our present leaders! The fruit of the departure from a serious faith in the Lord shows in the current state of our nation.