Pretty much everyone knows about Paul Revere and his midnight ride through Massachusetts to warn people that British troops were coming. Less well-known is a similar incident a couple years later, when Sybil Ludington, the daughter of a colonel in the American militia, rode through Putnam County, New York, to alert the militia so they could try to defend Danbury, Connecticut.

Here are some resources to learn more about Sybil Ludington:

• National Women’s History Museum.  Sybil Ludington.  https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sybil-ludington.
• Historic Patterson, New York.  Sybil Ludington.  https://www.historicpatterson.org/Exhibits/ExhSybilLudington.php.
• Paula D. Hunt.  “Sybil Ludington, the Female Paul Revere: The Making of a Revolutionary War Heroine.”  The New England Quarterly, vol. 88, no. 2, 2015, pp. 187–222.

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