Ride for freedom

By Judy Hominick

Subjects: Burning of Danbury by the British (Connecticut : 1777) fast (OCoLC)fst01352166, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, American Revolution (1775-1783) fast (OCoLC)fst01351668

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.