內森黑爾
Nathan Hale was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was captured by the British. He is best remembered for his speech before being hanged following the Battle of Long Island, in which he said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Hale has long been considered an American hero and, in 1985, he was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut. Statues of Nathan Hale are located at the headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia, the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., downtown Chicago, on the campus at Yale University, and in the Tulane University Law School reading room.
內森黑爾是美國獨立戰爭時期大陸軍團的一名戰士。他被認為是美國第一個間諜。他自愿接受情報搜集任務，但是被英軍認出并抓獲。他被處以絞刑之前說了一句話，讓人們永世難忘，那就是"我惟一的憾事就是我只能為祖國犧牲一次"，之后就爆發了長島戰爭。一直以來黑爾都被認為是美國的英雄。1985年，他被正式冠以"康涅狄格州的英雄"稱號。他的雕像被放在很多地方，比如弗吉尼亞州的費爾法克斯縣、 蘭利的中央情報局、芝加哥商業區、華盛頓特區的聯邦三角、耶魯大學的校園，還有杜蘭大學法學院的閱覽室里。
Nathan Hale was born in Coventry, Connecticut in 1755. In 1768, when he was fourteen years old, he was sent with his brother Enoch to Yale College. Nathan was a classmate of fellow patriot spy Benjamin Tallmadge. The Hale brothers belonged to the Yale literary fraternity, which debated topics in astronomy, mathematics, literature, and the ethics of slavery. Graduating with first-class honors in 1773，Nathan became a teacher, first in East Haddam and later in New London. After the Revolutionary War began in 1775, he joined a Connecticut militia and was elected first lieutenant. On July 6，1775，he joined the regular Continental Army's 7th Connecticut Regiment under Colonel Charles Webb of Stamford. He was promoted to captain and in March 1776，commanded a small unit of Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton's Rangers defending New York City. They managed to rescue a ship full of provisions from the guard of a British man-of-war.
內森黑爾于1755年出生在康涅狄格州的考文垂。1768年，他14歲，他和弟弟伊諾克被送進耶魯學院。內森和本杰明塔爾米奇是同班同學。黑爾兄弟屬于耶魯文學兄弟會，他們討論的話題包括天文學、數學、文學和奴隸制的道德問題。他在1773 年榮譽畢業，成為一名教師，首先任教在東哈德姆，后來在新倫敦。革命戰爭開始于 1775年，他參加了一個康涅狄格民兵組織，并擔任中尉。在1775年7月6日，他加入了斯坦福上校查爾斯韋伯領導下的大陸軍的第七康涅狄格團。1776年3月，他被晉升為隊長，指揮中校托馬斯諾爾頓的一支小分隊保衛紐約市。他們設法營救在英國兵船防守下的運糧船只。
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