Talk:Nathan Hale (colonel)

January 11 2021 edits
I've removed a large chunk of this article that went into what I feel is too much detail about the Siege of Fort Ticonderoga; that information is better presented on the article on that specific subject. However, I've also edited and preserved what I removed in case there is consensus to include this detail.

("Apparently General St Clair claimed Fort Ticonderoga without much of a fight as the British were not there." If my edit is reverted, please at least cut this sentence. It implies that St. Clair was besieging the British, which is not the case; Fort Ticonderoga had been captured from the British two years earlier by the Green Mountain Boys, not St. Clair's forces.)


 * The siege took place from July 2–6, 1777; Arthur St. Clair led about 3,000 Americans against a British army of 7,000 men under John Burgoyne and William Phillips, as well as about 800 Indians and Canadians


 * Colonel Hale's regiment was given responsibility for evacuating the sick and wounded.


 * Fort Ticonderoga had a long reputation for being nearly impregnable, but the officers and men of the Continental Army encamped there under St. Clair had expressed concerns about an opposing hill named Mount Defiance. If the British placed cannons there, the fort would have no defense against them.


 * Burgoyne took over Fort Ticonderoga and nearby Fort Independence while the Americans retreated. The uncontested surrender of Ticonderoga caused an uproar in the American public and in its military, as Ticonderoga was a vital point of defence. General St. Clair and his superior, General Philip Schuyler, were vilified by Congress. Both would eventually be exonerated in courts martial, but Schuyler lost his command to Horatio Gates, and St. Clair held no more field commands for the remainder of the war. (See Losing's Field book of the Revolution vol. 1 p. 145 for more on the retreat and Col Hale's caution with sick and wounded as they could not move out of harms way during the battle of Hubbardton.)

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needs cleaning up: at present, it hopelessly confuses the various Nathan Hales. - Nunh-huh 22:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I have reverted the edits that confused the two differnt Nathan Hale's (maybe there are more?) of the Rev. War back to my stub with the info I could find. I thought by putting the link at the top to the spy Nathan Hale that they wouldn't get confused. Marc29th 23:12, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Isn't that the Nathan Hale from "Harold and Maud"? I need this hero!  --80.136.171.208 15:18, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Nathan Hale/Enoch Hale
As far as Nathan Hale the spy goes, his brother was Enoch Hale...I wonder if the fact that this Nathan had a brother by the same name can be verified...71.233.255.175 (talk) 07:45, 6 December 2010 (UTC)