...York City after the Battle Long Island. He volunteered for the job at the Nathan Hale City Hall Park "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." This graceful, l3-foot standing bronze figure, sculpted by Frederick Max Monnics (l863-l937),...

...Hale gave an important speech before he was executed. He ended the speech with the now famous line, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Hale died on September 22, 1776, at the age of 21. This drawing shows Nathan Hale just...

...blamed for starting a great fire, and he was publicly hanged on an apple tree. Hale's last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale was a great American teacher and Patriot, and his name has been smeared and his reputation has been...

...personal history behind extraordinary events such as twenty-one-year-old Nathan Hale's heroic declaration, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Learning history as sets of facts to be memorized and regurgitated for tests might even...

...officer in furnishing him with pen and ink, were torn up by the brutal Cunningham. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The story of his heroic death soon became known throughout the army, and inspired his...

...Hull, later, who reported Montresor's account of Hale's last words as he was about to be executed : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," which was a variation on another then-famous line from the play Cato. (One imagines that...

...from the New London community, chose to say, immediately before being hanged by the British as a spy, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" (Bartlett 484). These words clearly resemble those spoken by Cato as this paragon of Roman...

...death as a spy by the British. Before he was executed he made a speech, concluding with these words, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." He is considered an American hero and patriot. 21. This day is usually the beginning of...

...Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln; Patrick Henry ("Give me liberty or give me death."); Nathan Hale ("I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."). • Space Explorers: Those who have dared to investigate "the final frontier." • GI...

...their forces. Others of our agents reported that, before he was hanged, young Nathan Hale said bravely, 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.' These should be the sentiments of all of us. Now I must end this note too soon, as we...