Nathan Hale, September 22, 1776

Nathan Hale, September 22, 1776350 Signed Numbered Overall: 21" x 26" Image: 16. 5" x 22" $125. 00 This is Don Troiani's depiction just before the hanging. While some authors contend Hale was hung at about 66th St. & First Ave., a British officer states he was hung in front of the Royal Artillery Park. Period British maps prove this was at Turtle Bay (present 45th St.) just South of Howe's Headquarters in the Beekman House and across from the Dove Tavern at the fourth mile marker.

Louisiana Militia

At some point in the celebration

He shot one with his musket and two more with his pistols

a group of Whig riflemen took aim and fired

but they were hemmed in by the fences running along both sides of the lane and could not maneuver effectively

both day and night

as he lead three hundred and fifty of  his Wilkes County men in a crushing victory over a loyalist force under Major Patrick Ferguson

New Orleans

Ferguson's Corps of British Riflemen

Deponent had a brother in this engagement who was taken prisoner and

Unable to escape to the main guard house

Seminole Wars