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Nathan Hale

American military officer
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Nathan Hale (born June 6, 1755, Coventry, Connecticut [U.S.]—died September 22, 1776, Manhattan Island, New York) was an American Revolutionary officer who attempted to spy on the British and was hanged. He attended Yale University, where he graduated in 1773, and became a schoolteacher, first in East Haddam and then in New London. He joined a Connecticut regiment in 1775, served in the siege of Boston, and was commissioned a captain (1776). He went to...

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