Life often calls on us to be heroes, sometimes in small ways, sometimes in grand ways. A hero is a person admired for courage, nobility, exploits, qualities, or achievements and regarded as an ideal or model. America seems to be good at making heroes when we need them. Here are some heroic women of our Revolutionary War (1775-1783) you may not have heard about. They all contributed to this great experiment we call American Democracy. Like Paul Revere, Sybil Ludington rode horseback in the dark of night. On April 26, 1777, at the age of 16, she rode 40 miles through a rainstorm to find her father, a colonel in the New York militia, and warn him that the British