The correct answer to this question would be alternative A) "Father, the people must be warned—and there simply is no one else to do it"
Sybil Ludington was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War, as she reportedly rode at the age of 16, to alert the militia forces in villages of Putnam County, New York, and Danbury, Connecticut, to the the approach of the British regular forces. She is speaking to her father who was the head of a militia unit during the revolution.
