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Captain Nathan Hale

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Nathan Hale was a descendant of John Hale, first minister of Banby, Massachusetts. He was the sixth child of Richard and Elizabeth Hale, and was born in Coventry, Connecticut. He graduated at Yale College in 1773, with distinguished honors.…

Battle of Trenton

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 26. –General Washington, finding it absolutely necessary to rouse the spirits of the army, which have been sorely depressed by the long series of disasters which have attended us for almost the whole of this month, resolved to…