Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refus…
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William Hull
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About William Hull
William Hull was a United States army officer and politician. A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, he later served as governor of the Michigan Territory (1805–1813), where he negotiated land cessions with Native Americans through the Treaty of Detroit in 1807. Hull is most widely remembered as the general in the first months of the War of 1812 (1812–1815) who surrendered Fort Detroit to the British Army on August 16, 1812, ending the siege of Detroit.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by William HullIn a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested…