Nathan Hale was an unlikely, unprepared and unlucky spy. Many grew up hearing Hale’s story: Early in the U.S. War for Independence, he crossed Long Island Sound to Huntington to gather ...

Hale had taken a boat across Long Island Sound to Huntington to gather military intelligence for Gen. George Washington before being captured and executed as a spy.

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. “… ...

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.

According to British Army Capt. John Montresor, among the Revolutionary War spy and early patriot Nathan Hale's final words before his hanging were: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose ...

Hale, whose 250th birthday is being marked this year, is supposed to have uttered those words shortly before he was hanged by the British in 1776 as a spy for the Continental Army.

Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the film rights to journo M. William Phelps' upcoming bio on American Revolutionary hero and spy Nathan Hale, whose final words before being hung by the Brits ...

It was there Hale is reputed to have uttered his famous line, likely a paraphrase of a line from a popular play by British writer Joseph Addison: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose ...