What would you do if your country was counting on you to deliver a message?
Sybil Ludington had just turned sixteen in April of 1777, when a messenger dismounted his exhausted horse, stumbled into her house and announced that the British were burning Danbury, Connecticut--less than a 15 hours march from the ...
She was only 16 when she rode through the night to summon her father's regiment to stop the British advance into NY after burning Danbury.
A fictionalized account of the sixteen-year-old girl, trained to handle a musket, who rode alone over forty miles in New York to bring out the militia before the Battle of Ridgefield.
Sybil Ludington: Discovering the Life of a Revolutionary War Hero
Sybil Ludington rode further and longer than Paul Revere to warn of the approaching British saving the entire Hudson Valley in the American Revolution.
She helped save a town, and she once protected her father's life. She met spies and war commanders. Her name was Sybil Ludington, and even all these years later, this Revolutionary War hero remains a symbol of female strength and bravery.