It is September 22, 1776. American spy Nathan Hale is led to a rope, with his hands tied together. Nathan Hale’s hands are then untied and a rope which has a loop goes onto his neck (the rope is tied to a tree). Then, he climbs up the tree as the soldier says. But before he jumps, Nathan Hale says a few words before he goes. He then says “I regret that I have but one life to give to my country”. Then, he jumps of the tree and bam, he’s dead. Who WAS this Nathan Hale dude anyway?
Nathan Hale was born on June 6th, 1755 in Coventry, Connecticut. He had a mole on his neck which his classmates said it was bad luck and he would die by hanging. He was included in the Revolutionary War, a war (duh!) that was about freedom from Britain for the U.S.A, and tea and taxes for the British. There was the Stamp Act which taxed almost EVERYTHING for the Americans. Then they taxes tea, which caused the famous event called the “Boston Tea Party” where many Americans snuck on board of a British tea delivering boat, and threw all the tea from the ship into the ocean! Then Nathan Hale got involved and battled for the Americans.
I don’t want to tell you the WHOLE thing, this blog would be too long if it told ALL the events Nathan Hale participated in. So lets speed up where the Americans need a spy to help them. Hale decided to be the American’s spy, and disguised himself as a teacher. Then he met this spy named Robert Rogers (who worked for both America and Britain just for the moola $$) and then Nathan Hale MET Robert Rogers and got betrayed by Rogers, then Nathan Hale was lead to execution and died. THE END.
If you want to learn where I got all this info from, I would like to thank Nathan Hale (the author, not the spy) for making the book, Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy. This book also has a following series of funny and gruesome tales! READ THEM ALL!
(FYI: Nathan Hale WAS a real person)