Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (6 Iunii 1755—22 Septembris 1776) fuit miles in Exercitu Continentali per Bellum Rerum Novarum Americanum merens. Operam suam professus est ut intelligentiam militarem de academia militare Novi Eboraci conligeret, sed Britanni de eo capto supplicium suspensionis sumpserunt. Memoria publica retentus est ob eius verba ultima sub laqueum dicta: "Solum paenitet me habere unam vitam solam quam patriae amittam."[1][2] Hale, diutissime heros Americanus putatus, anno 1985 heros civitatis Connecticutae rite constitutus est.
Adnotationes
- ↑ Anglice: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
- ↑ Crocker 2006:57.
Bibliographia
- Crocker, H. W. III. 2006. Don't Tread on Me. Novi Eboraci: Crown Forum. ISBN 978-1-4000-5363-6.
- Haswell, Charles Haynes. 1896. Reminiscences of New York by an octogenarian' (1816 to 1860).[nexus deficit] Novi Eboraci: Harper.
- Neff, Jacob K. 1845. The Army and Navy of America: containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Florida War : independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea : enlivened by a variety of the most interesting anecdotes, and splendidly embellished with numerous engravings. John S. Gable.
- Seymour, George D. 2006. Documentary Life of Nathan Hale: Comprising All Available Official and Private Documents Bearing on the Life of the Patriot. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4286-0043-0.
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