we all know that paul revere rode his horse and warned everyone that the british were coming, right? and we know it because of a poem that we all learned in school.

what the poem failed to mention was that revere had 40 other riders with him, that he got arrested before he got far, and that a 16-year-old girl named sybil ludington rode twice as far through the night and delivered up more soldiers, receiving an official thanks from then-general george washington. so why don't we know about her instead of revere?

her name was too difficult to rhyme.