Researching General Ethan Allen

[flamingdem]

and wondering if anyone has interesting resources to share or opinions about him or his comrades. PS We're not talking furniture!

Especially interested in his philosophy (see his book Reason, the Only Oracle of Man). He was at most a deist, perhaps an atheist.

Allen is known to have written the following publications:

Allen, Ethan (1779). A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity. C. Goodrich. ISBN 066543295X. OCLC 3505817. The 1779 edition of Allen's Narrative
Allen, Ethan (1849). Ethan Allen's Narrative of the Capture of Ticonderoga: And of His Captivity and Treatment by the British. C. Goodrich and S.B. Nichols. ISBN 0665221355. OCLC 17008777. An 1849 edition of Allen's Narrative.
edited by Stephen Carl Arch. (2000). A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity. Copley Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1583900093. A 2000 edition of Allen's Narrative available at Amazon in March 2009
Allen, Ethan (1854). Reason, the Only Oracle of Man: Or, A Compendious System of Natural Religion. J.P. Mendum. ISBN 1150697598. OCLC 84441828.

[ellisonz]

1. Seems like there is more to Ethan Allen than I thought...

Thanks for posting although I am of no help.

[flamingdem]

2. I'm new to

any in depth study of American History. Ethan Allen's story interlocks with so many events and historical figures but it's so long ago... it's not easy to get a true picture. The religion angle has been discussed on rightie sites, they don't like the idea that the founding fathers were atheist, this is what interests me.