{"id":"01KG8AKNK17W8D6AV2BW0BJYZT","cid":"bafkreiawxohdx55vdxd4flzhll5qhyxqjuhfr6othj6rgsknxqa36yqnwu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":6733,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:05.591Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1DKC9HHJRKY25JZBEXW","start_line":6678,"text":"CHAPTER XXII.\r\nSOMETHING FURTHER OF ETHAN ALLEN; WITH ISRAEL’S FLIGHT TOWARDS THE\r\nWILDERNESS.\r\n\r\n\r\nAmong the episodes of the Revolutionary War, none is stranger than that\r\nof Ethan Allen in England; the event and the man being equally\r\nuncommon.\r\n\r\nAllen seems to have been a curious combination of a Hercules, a Joe\r\nMiller, a Bayard, and a Tom Hyer; had a person like the Belgian giants;\r\nmountain music in him like a Swiss; a heart plump as Coeur de Lion’s.\r\nThough born in New England, he exhibited no trace of her character. He\r\nwas frank, bluff, companionable as a Pagan, convivial, a Roman, hearty\r\nas a harvest. His spirit was essentially Western; and herein is his\r\npeculiar Americanism; for the Western spirit is, or will yet be (for no\r\nother is, or can be), the true American one.\r\n\r\nFor the most part, Allen’s manner while in England was scornful and\r\nferocious in the last degree; however, qualified by that wild, heroic\r\nsort of levity, which in the hour of oppression or peril seems\r\ninseparable from a nature like his; the mode whereby such a temper best\r\nevinces its barbaric disdain of adversity, and how cheaply and\r\nwaggishly it holds the malice, even though triumphant, of its foes!\r\nAside from that inevitable egotism relatively pertaining to pine trees,\r\nspires, and giants, there were, perhaps, two special incidental reasons\r\nfor the Titanic Vermonter’s singular demeanor abroad. Taken captive\r\nwhile heading a forlorn hope before Montreal, he was treated with\r\ninexcusable cruelty and indignity; something as if he had fallen into\r\nthe hands of the Dyaks. Immediately upon his capture he would have been\r\ndeliberately suffered to have been butchered by the Indian allies in\r\ncold blood on the spot, had he not, with desperate intrepidity, availed\r\nhimself of his enormous physical strength, by twitching a British\r\nofficer to him, and using him for a living target, whirling him round\r\nand round against the murderous tomahawks of the savages. Shortly\r\nafterwards, led into the town, fenced about by bayonets of the guard,\r\nthe commander of the enemy, one Colonel McCloud, flourished his cane\r\nover the captive’s head, with brutal insults promising him a rebel’s\r\nhalter at Tyburn. During his passage to England in the same ship\r\nwherein went passenger Colonel Guy Johnson, the implacable tory, he was\r\nkept heavily ironed in the hold, and in all ways treated as a common\r\nmutineer; or, it may be, rather as a lion of Asia; which, though caged,\r\nwas still too dreadful to behold without fear and trembling, and\r\nconsequent cruelty. And no wonder, at least for the fear; for on one\r\noccasion, when chained hand and foot, he was insulted on shipboard by\r\nan officer; with his teeth he twisted off the nail that went through\r\nthe mortise of his handcuffs, and so, having his arms at liberty,\r\nchallenged his insulter to combat. Often, as at Pendennis Castle, when\r\nno other avengement was at hand, he would hurl on his foes such howling\r\ntempests of anathema as fairly to shock them into retreat. Prompted by\r\nsomewhat similar motives, both on shipboard and in England, he would\r\noften make the most vociferous allusions to Ticonderoga, and the part\r\nhe played in its capture, well knowing, that of all American names,\r\nTiconderoga was, at that period, by far the most famous and galling to\r\nEnglishmen.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJJRT48TB2TKJX44CVWC1","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1DKC9HHJRKY25JZBEXW","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKNJZDJHVASDDES7SGS2G","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:11.873Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.040Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}