spy

UNDER CONSTRUCTION NATHEN HALE I am Nathan hale, a soldier for the Continental army during the Revolutionary War. i was a spy for the Continental army. i was in a mission in New York City, but then i was captured by the lobster backs. These are my last words before i was hanged:"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my Country". I have been considered an American hero. In 1985, i was officially known as the state hero of Connecticut. I was born in Connecticut in 1755. In 1768, when i was fourteen years old, i was sent with my brother enoch to Yale College. In 1773, i became a teacher, first in East Haddam and later in New London. After the Revolutionary War began in 1775, i joined a Connecticut militia and was elected first lieutenant. When my militia unit participated in the siege of Boston, i remained behind. During the battle of long lsland, which led to British victory and the capture of New York City, a move from Staten lsland across Long lsland, i volunteered on September 8, 1776, to go behind enemy lines and report on British troop movements. It was an act of spying that was immediately punishable by death and posed a great risk to me. During my mission, New York City fell to Lobster back forces on September 15 and Washington was forced to retreat to the islands northern tip in Harlem Heights. On September 21, a quarter of the lower portion of Manhattan burned in the [|Great New York Fire of 1776]. The fire was later widely thought to have been started by American saboteurs to keep the city from falling into British hands, though Washington and congress had already denied this idea. Washington thought the fire could of been the work of British soldiers acting without orders. A account of my capture was written by Consider Tiffany, a Connecticut shopkeeper and Loyalist, and obtained by the library of congress. In Tiffany's account Major Robert Rogers of the queens Rangers saw me in a tavern and recognized me despite my disguise. After luring me into betraying myself by pretending to be a patriot, Rogers and his Rangers apprehended Hale near flushing Bay, in Queens, New York. Another story was that my Loyalist cousin, Samuel Hale, was the one who revealed my true identity. According to the standards of the time, spies were hanged as illegal combatants. On the morning of September 22, 1776, Hale was marched along Post Road to the Park of Artillery, which was next to a public house called the Dove Tavern and i was hanged.