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The Thunder-Ride of Sybil Ludington: America’s Forgotten Midnight Hero On the stormy night of April 26, 1777, a British force marched toward Danbury, Connecticut—one of the Patriot army’s vital supply depots. With most local militiamen scattered across the countryside, the American defense hung by a thread. Across the border in Fredericksburg, New York, a sixteen-year-old girl stepped forward to do the impossible. Sybil Ludington, daughter of Colonel Henry Ludington, mounted her horse, lifted a