Sybil's Ride
Sybil Ludington, the 16-year-old daughter of Dutchess County's Colonel Henry Ludington, performed a significant service for the Patriot cause before the battle. When an exhausted messenger arrived at the Ludington house to inform them of the British advance on Danbury, she volunteered to ride throughout the county to round up the local militia. In an act favorably comparable to the ride of Paul Revere to raise the alarm at Lexington and Concord, she rode more than 40 miles (64 km) through a rainy night, alerting Patriots and avoiding Loyalists to raise the troops. Although Ludington's men were too late to assist at Ridgefield, they formed part of the force that harassed the British on their return to the beach.
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