Nathan Hale Hanged: I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Lose
He was 21, a Yale graduate, and had volunteered specifically for the mission no one else wanted. Nathan Hale slipped behind British lines disguised as a Dutch schoolteacher, spent weeks gathering intelligence, and was caught before he could deliver a single report. He had no handler, no extraction plan, no cover story that held. The British hanged him without trial the morning after his capture. His reported last words — 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country' — became a recruiting speech for a war he didn't live to see won.
September 22, 1776
250 years ago
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