The New International Encyclopædia/Allen, Ebenezer

ALLEN, Ebenezer (1743-1806). An American soldier. He was born in Northampton, Mass., and removed to Vermont in 1771. He became a lieutenant in a company of Green Mountain Boys, and during the Revolution served first as captain in and then as major of a battalion of New Hampshire rangers. He was conspicuous for gallantry at the battle of Bennington, and in September, 1777, forced the evacuation of Ticonderoga by his capture of Mount Defiance.