On April 26, 1777, an icy, wind-driven rain ripped across New York State’s farmlands shaking the boards of the Ludington family mill as a messenger arrived with news—nearby Danbury, Connecticut, was under British attack and burning. Within minutes, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, daughter of an American colonel, mounted her horse, ready for a forty-mile ride through treacherous terrain to alert her father’s troops. [More]