Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue (Women of Action) by Susan Casey Boston and playful perspectives

and playful perspectives

"--Roy Vickery

thoughtful and moving--and likely to become a classic in either genre

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Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue (Women of Action) by Susan Casey Boston and playful perspectivesEvery 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