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From the top of Mount Equinox, 3816 feet above sea level, Vermont stretches rugged, green and gorgeous in every direction. Equinox is not precisely one of the Green Mountains-it's the highest peak in a subsidiary range called the Taconics-but it offers a panoramic view of the land Ethan Allen adopted when he moved from Connecticut as a young man.
His role in the American Revolution notwithstanding, Allen was branded a traitor by some contemporaries. He organized his Green Mountain Boys to fight militias from New York and New Hampshire, should either attempt to enforce its claim to the territory of Vermont, and was charged with treason after he opened negotiations ...