| Benjamin Homer Hall - Vermont - 1858 - 830 pages
...molestation, and on reaching the town made proclamation to the people in these words : — " I, Ethan Allen, do declare that I will give no quarter to the...will lay it as desolate as Sodom and Gomorrah, by God." Words like these uttered by one whose name was a terror, and supported by men enraged and resolute,... | |
| Benjamin Homer Hall - Vermont - 1858 - 842 pages
...molestation, and on reaching the town made proclamation to the people in these words : — " I, Ethan Allen, do declare that I will give no quarter to the...Guilford peacefully submit to the authority of Vermont, I ewear that I will lay it as desolate as Sodom and Gomorrah, by God." Words like these uttered by one... | |
| Hiland Hall - Vermont - 1868 - 536 pages
...without molestation, and in his stentorian voice made proclamation to the people as follows: " I Ethan Allen, do declare that I will give no quarter to the...who shall oppose me, and unless the inhabitants of Gruilford peaceably submit to the authority of Vermont, I swear I will lay it as desolate as Sodom... | |
| Henry Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 1892 - 238 pages
...Allen, knowing the terror of his name, entering Guilford on foot, uttered this proclamation : "I, Ethan Allen, do declare that I will give no quarter to the...I will lay it as desolate as Sodom and Gomorrah by God." In 1784 Allen published a book entitled " Reason, the Only Oracle of Man: or, A Compendious System... | |
| George Sheldon - Deerfield (Mass.) - 1896 - 750 pages
...a party of Vermonters anil made this characteristic proclamation: "1 Kthan Allen do declare that 1 will give no quarter to the man woman or child who...Guilford peacefully submit to the authority of Vermont 1 sware that I will lay it as desolate as Sodom and (iomorrah by God!" This was effectual to do the... | |
| Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association - Deerfield (Mass.) - 1921 - 614 pages
...child, who shall oppose me; and unless the people of Guilford submit to the authority of the state of Vermont, I swear that I will lay it as desolate as Sodom and Gomorrah, by God!" The terror of Allen's name was enough; his foes had fled, and his force marched unmolested to... | |
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