Love your country, serve your community, answer the call of duty: These are the lessons of Caesar Rodney’s midnight ride from Delaware to Philadelphia in July 1776. Many know the broad outlines of the story. The Continental Congress was deadlocked on formally separating from the British Empire. Delaware’s delegation was split. Thomas McKean urgently sent word to Caesar Rodney, who was serving in Dover, that he was needed in Philadelphia to break the tie. Rodney immediately set off on the 80-mile journey, condensing a three-day trip into mere hours. The miracle of his midnight ride is further underscored by the …