Every schoolchild knows about Paul Revere\'s 20-mile ride to warn that the British were coming.
Few know about Martha Bratton, who blew up a supply of gunpowder to keep it from approaching British troops and boldly claimed, ``It was I who did it `` Susan Casey gives Ludington, Bratton, and 18 other remarkable girls and Women of the Revolu.
Far fewer know that 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode twice as far to help her father, Colonel Ludington, muster his scattered troops to fight a marauding enemy.
Every schoolchild knows about Paul Revere\'s 20-mile ride to warn that the British were coming