The Fourteenth State (ePub)

John P. Roach Jr., raised in Glen Rock, New Jersey made his first trip to Vermont to enter St. Michael's College, near Burlington.

He found Ethan Allen's name used everywhere by businesses, schools, parks and monuments and being a history buff became quite surprised that his previous education made little or no mention of this incredible hero of the American Revolution.

During the war, the first American Navy took on the mighty British Navy in the battle of Lake Champlain where they ambushed the British Fleet at Valcour Island. Both are neglected colossal oversights in our history books.

Taking his two children on many voyages on Lake Champlain, they visited Valcour Island, Ft. Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Button Bay and Arnold Bay, and many other historic sites of the Battles of Lake Champlain. The author has also traveled on his yacht "Rocinante" from Montreal on the St. Lawrence River, to the Richelieu River, to Lake Champlain, to the Hudson River continually fascinated by the historical significance of this water highway.

Before leaving Vermont in a move to La Jolla, California the author made a point to visit each and every town, hamlet and village in the State of Vermont. He traveled by car usually between September 20 and October 15 each year when the autumn splendor is blazing with color.

After spending 22 years in Vermont the author can relate to the life and times of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. Climbing to the top of both Mt. Mansfield and Camel's Hump with the kids in the spring and autumn and looking West to Lake Champlain you get a clear perspective of the vast properties once owned by Ethan and Ira Allen.

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