Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere's midnight ride, but very few have ever heard of a young girl named Sybil Ludington. Sybil's midnight ride was probably the more impressive of the two.
Late one April night in 1777, there was a loud knock on the door of the Ludington house. There was a price put on Col. Henry Ludington's head placed by the British, so they were worried it was someone trying to capture him. However, it was a courier from Danbury. When Col. Ludington opened the door for the exhausted man he found out that the British had set fire to the town of Danbury.
Col. Ludington needed someone to go warn the other towns and tell the Militia to join up at his house. But the courier was to tired to go on such a run. Without hesitation his daughter stepped up to take the challenge. Sybil was as comfortable on a horse as she was on her own two feet so she was confident she would succeed. By the time the night was over Sybil had rode over forty miles, and when she got home there roughly 400 men at her fathers house. They were all there because of Sybil Ludington
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