Here is an evening Nathan Hale would have liked. A warm, westering sun, orange as an orange. The cheep of young birds. The slow, indifferent Connecticut River pushing itself toward the sea. “… ...

That road is now 3rd Avenue, and the plaque is on the exterior wall of a building at 1110 3rd Avenue. Hale never married and had no children. The Hale family later erected a large cenotaph (a memorial ...

When he was 14, in 1769, Nathan Hale and his older brother Enoch,* left the Coventry homestead and, riding horseback through the September ... it was buried in an unmarked grave and forgotten.

The American patriot Nathan Hale was caught 248 years ago this weekend for spying against the British on Long Island — and hanged for treason. Hale, just 21 years old, had been in the Huntington ...

American patriot Nathan Hale reportedly uttered, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," before the captured spy was hanged by the British on Sept. 22, 1776 in Manhattan ...

In 1776, Revolutionary War soldier Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy in New York City by the British General William Howe. He was twenty-one at the time. Born in Coventry, Connecticut, the state ...

In 1776, Nathan Hale was hanged from the gallows for allegedly spying on the British. History writes that in his last dying speech, he professed the words, "I only regret that I have one life to ...