take the statues down...
his third cousin twice removed owned a slave for a few days
Thx for posting it.
What a guy. One of my most all time favorite quotes.
Inspired my tagline!
Bookmarked.
Only 21 years old.
Back when Connecticut had real men.
I’m originally from Willimantic , CT , just down the road apiece from Hale’s homestead . Never visited it when I lived in CT but did back in the early 90’s visiting from Japan with my wife and 3 year old daughter . Not many men around like Hale these days .
Nathan Hale is Connecticut’s state hero. Coventry High teams are the Patriots. His house is nice...
How historic events connect: When Hale was captured in 1776 Washington sent a message to Howe asking him to let Hale go as he was just a young man who got in over his head- it wasn’t true but Washington tried anyway. Washington never forgot that act. In 1780 when Benedict Arnold’s spy master John Andre was captured, there was not a thought of trading him for American officers as the British expected. When Andre asked to be shot by firing squad Washington said NO and hung him “like the common criminal he was.”
A year later in North Carolina a retired Continental Army officer was persuaded to carry a few military papers by friends still in the army. He was captured and should have been able to “get away” with a jail sentence at that point.
But that didn’t happen. A three officer tribunal of British officers sentenced him to death. Two of them were Andre’s best friends.
