Captain Nathan Hale - Coventry, CT
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A monument with a bronze statue of Captain Nathan Hale, the state hero of Connecticut, is located on Veterans Green facing Lake Street in Coventry, CT.
Waymark Code: WM16RM9
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 09/26/2022
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A life size bronze statue of Captain Nathan Hale, depicts the Revolutionary War hero standing on a trapezoidal shaped granite base. His chin is raised and he is looking slightly up to his left side. He is wearing a jacket and shirt with open an collar, calf length trousers, long stockings, and buckle shoes. His hands are tied behind his back as he is awaiting execution.
The base of the statue has a bronze plaque which is inscribed:
Captain
Nathan Hale
June 6, 1755 September 22, 1776
“I only regret that I have but one
life to lose for my Country”
Nathan Hale was born in Coventry, Connecticut on June 6, 1755. He attended Yale University and graduated in 1773. In 1775, he joined a Connecticut militia as a first lieutenant. After the battle of Long Island in, August 1776, Washington retreated to Manhattan. He desperately needed information on British troop movements. On September 8, 1776, Captain Nathan Hale volunteered to go behind enemy lines to obtain the information and report back to General Washington.
He was secretly ferried into Long Island. Hale was captured by the British in Flushing Bay, Queens and brought to Manhattan where, on September 22, 1776, twenty-one year old Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy. In 1985, he was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut.