The Horse-riding Adventure of Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary War Messenger

ISBN-10
1451716567
ISBN-13
9781451716566
Category
Danbury (Conn.)
Pages
31
Language
English
Published
2011
Author
Amanda Doering

Description

In 1777, on a cold and stormy night in the New York Colony, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes a dangerous and difficult ride to warn the local militiamen that the British Army is looting and burning nearby Danbury, Connecticut.

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