Note D — Chapter VII · FALL OF TICONDEROGA.

Irving describes Allen as “well-fitted for the enterprise by his experience as a frontier champion, his robustness of mind and body, and his fearless spirit. He had a rough kind of eloquence, also, that was very effective with his followers.” “His style,” says another who knew him personally, “was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness: and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammatical, was highly animated and forcible.” General Washington wrote, “there is an original something in him which commands attention.”