Nathan Hale was a schoolmaster and fight in the revolutionary war. In the war he was an Intelligence gatherer in the battle of long island 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. 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 north in harlem heights(what is now morningside heights). On …show more content…
It has also been speculated that the fire was the work of British soldiers acting without orders. In the fire's aftermath, more than 200 American partisans were rounded up by the British. An account of Nathan Hale's capture was written by consider tiffany, a Connecticut shopkeeper and Loyalist, and obtained by the liberty 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 flushine bay in Queens, New York. Another story was that his Loyalist cousin, Samuel Hale, was the one who revealed his true identity. British General William Howe had established his headquarters in the Beekman House in a rural part of Manhattan, on a rise between 50th and 51th Streets between First and Second Avenues, near where Beekman Place commemorates the connection. Hale reportedly was questioned by Howe, and physical evidence was found on him. Rogers provided information about the