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DISPATCH #050
■ True Stories

The 16-Year-Old Girl Who Rode Twice as Far as Paul Revere

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At just 16 years old, Sybil Ludington became one of the Revolution’s most extraordinary messengers. At sixteen, she undertook a legendary forty-mile night ride through present-day Putnam and Dutchess Counties, New York, to alert colonial forces of a British raid on Danbury, Connecticut.

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