Every schoolchild knows about Paul Revere's 20-mile ride to warn that
the British were coming. 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. 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
Revolution the spotlight they deserve in this lively collection of
biographical profiles. Drawing on interviews with historians and
descendants as well as primary source material, this is an invaluable
resource for any student's or history buff's bookshelf.