About the time Nathan Hale made his unsuccessful one-way trip to Long Island to spy on the British for George Washington, another Continental Army soldier from Connecticut crossed the Sound on a ...

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. “… ...

Nathan Hale, hanged by British, remembered for last words he probably didn't say A statue of patriot Nathan Hale, who was caught spying on the British and hanged for treason on Sept. 22, 1776, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1973, William Colby, then the director of central intelligence, had a statue of the Revolutionary War spy Nathan Hale placed on the grounds of the CIA’s headquarters in Virginia. Hale struck ...

Details of Hale's capture have eluded historians, but library officials have new... Nathan Hale may have been a hero, but he was a lousy spy Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

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 ...