Known as “the female Paul Revere,” Sybil Ludington was 16 when she rode 40 miles through the woods on a night in April 1777, warning her father’s troops of a British attack on Danbury, Connecticut. By daybreak, most of the regiment had gathered at her home to join the fight.
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