Ride for Freedom: The Story of Sybil Ludington
- ISBN-10
- 1893110249
- ISBN-13
- 9781893110243
- Category
- Danbury (Conn.)
- Pages
- 52
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Authors
- Judy Hominick, Jeanne Spreier
Description
In 1777, on a cold and stormy night in the New York Colony, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes a dangerous and difficult ride to warn the local militiamen that the British Army is looting and burning nearby Danbury, Connecticut.
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