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HALE, NATHAN (1756-1776)

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HALE, NATHAN (1756-1776) , See also:American See also:hero of the See also:War of See also:Independence, was See also:born at See also:Coventry, See also:Conn., and educated II at Yale, then becoming a school teacher. He joined a See also:Connecticut See also:regiment after the breaking out of the war, and served in the See also:siege of See also:Boston, being commissioned a See also:captain at the opening of 1776. When See also:Heath's See also:brigade departed for New See also:York he went with them, and the tradition is that he was one of a small and daring See also:band who captured an See also:English See also:provision See also:sloop from under the very guns of a See also:man-of-war. But on the 21st of See also:September, having volunteered to enter the See also:British lines to ol,See also:tain See also:information concerning the enemy, he was captured in his disguise of a Dutch school-teacher and on the 22nd was hanged. The See also:penalty was in accordance with military See also:law, but See also:young Hale's See also:act was a brave one, and he has always been glorified as a See also:martyr. Tradition attributes to him the saying that he only regretted that he had but one See also:life to lose for his See also:country; and it is said that his See also:request for a See also:Bible and the services of a See also:minister was refused by his captors. There is a See also:fine statue of Hale by See also:Macmonnies in New York. See H. P. See also:Johnston, Nathan Hale (1901).

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