During the Battle of Long Island, which led to British victory and the capture of New York City, via a flanking move from Staten Island across Long Island, Hale volunteered on September 8，1776，to go behind enemy lines and report on British troop movements. He was ferried across on September 12. It was an act of spying that was immediately punishable by death, and posed a great risk to Hale.
在長島戰(zhàn)爭期間，英國通過側(cè)面攻擊從斯塔頓島到長島的移動的方式取得了勝利，并占領(lǐng)了紐約城。1776年9月8日，在長島戰(zhàn)爭中，黑爾主動到敵方后線去偵查英軍的動向。他于9月12日被橫渡過去，在這次間諜行動他受到懲罰，黑爾的生命受到威脅。
During his mission, New York City (then the area at the southern tip of Manhattan around Wall Street) fell to British forces on September 15, and Washington was forced to retreat to the island's northern tip in Harlem Heights (what is now Morningside Heights.)-On September 21, a quarter of the lower portion of Manhattan burned in the Great New York Fire of 1776. The fire was later widely thought to have been started by American saboteurs. to keep the city from falling into British hands, though Washington and Congress had already denied this idea. It has also been speculated that the fire was the work of British soldiers acting without orders, intending to punish and/or intimidate any remaining Patriots in the city - with unintended consequences, however. In the fire's aftermath, more than 200 American partisans were rounded up by the British.
9月15日，他執(zhí)行任務(wù)期間，紐約市（當(dāng)時在紐約曼哈頓華爾街周圍南端區(qū)）落到英軍的手里。華盛頓被迫撤退到海島的哈萊姆區(qū)高地（北端在現(xiàn)在莫寧賽德髙地)。 9月21日，曼哈頓樓低層的四分之一在紐約市的大火中被燒毀。后來人們普遍認(rèn)為大火是由美國破壞者發(fā)起，以防止紐約落入英國人手中，盡管華盛頓和國會已經(jīng)否認(rèn)了這一說法。也有人推測， 火災(zāi)是無命令行事的英國士兵的發(fā)起，打算懲罰和或恐嚇任 何留在城市愛國者，但卻帶來了意想不到的后果。在火災(zāi)結(jié)束后，200多名美國游擊隊員被英軍圍捕。
An account of Nathan Hale's capture was written by Consider Tiffany, a Connecticut shopkeeper and Loyalist, and obtained by the Library of Congress. In Tiffany's account, Major Robert Rogers of the Queen's Rangers saw Hale in a tavern and recognized him despite his disguise. After luring Hale into betraying himself by pretending to be a patriot himself, Rogers and his Rangers apprehended Hale near Flushing Bay, in Queens, New York. Another story was that his Loyalist cousin, Samuel Hale, was the one who revealed his true identity.
美國國會圖書館從一個名叫考律蒂芙尼的康涅狄格保皇派店主獲得了內(nèi)森黑爾被捕時的情況描述。蒂芙尼的描述中稱，盡管黑爾偽裝了自己，女王的流浪者隊陸軍少校羅伯特羅杰斯在一個小酒館里看到黑爾并認(rèn)出了他。他假裝自己是一個愛國者引誘出賣了黑爾，羅杰斯和他的流浪者隊在在紐約皇后區(qū)的法拉盛灣附近拘捕黑爾。另一個故事說，黑爾的保皇派表弟，塞繆爾黑爾，才是表露他真實身份的人。
Statue of Hale, sculpted 1908-1912 by Bela Lyon Pratt, was cast in 1912 and stands in front of Connecticut Hall where he resided while at Yale. Copies of this sculpture stand at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts; the Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry; the Connecticut Governor's Mansion in Hartford, Fort Nathan Hale in New Haven, the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; Tribune Tower in Chicago; and at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, Virginia.
黑爾的銅像，于1908年由貝拉里昂普拉特開始雕刻，鑄成于1912年，被安放在他在耶魯居住過一段時間的康涅狄格州廳前。這個雕像的復(fù)制品被安放在馬薩諸塞州安多弗菲利普斯學(xué)院，內(nèi)森黑爾在考文垂的宅基地。康涅狄格總督在哈特福德的大廈堡，在紐黑文，華盛頓特區(qū)的司法部，在芝加哥的論壇大樓。以及在蘭利的中央情報局，在弗吉尼亞州的總部等很多地方。
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