The Green Mountain Boys

The American Revolutionary War did not just ‘happen’.  It was not a singular event, nor were the battles that took place the sum of the war.  The foundation of the greatest country to have ever existed on the planet was born of many struggles, many years in the making. It came as a result of men and women yearning to be left alone by centralized government and bureaucracies that inevitably ruin prosperity. Over and over across the American colonies, the people simply aimed to govern themselves, peaceably. The history of the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont is an example of these struggles for freedom. They persevered in obtaining this freedom locally and then came to the aid of the rest of the colonies becoming one of the most renowned militia units of the war. Similar to many militia units of the mid to late 1700’s, the Green Mountain Boys were initially put together to support settlers and land speculators settling the mountainous region of what would become the northeast United States