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William Hull Quotes Page 1 of 1William Hull June 24, 1753 - November 29, 1825 Nationality: American Category: Soldier Subcategory: American Soldier
| One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. | 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 refused by his inhuman jailer. | In 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 within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. |
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