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in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. The traditional words attributed to Ethan Allen when he demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga by the British commander during the Revolutionary War. There is another, better story, however. According to John Pell in Ethan Allen (1929): “Professor James D. Butler, of Madison, Wisconsin, has informed me that his grandfather Israel Harris was present and had often told him that Ethan Allen’s real language was, ‘Come out of here, you damned old rat.’ ” |