Nelson's band of brothers

Victors of the Nile - Nelson and the 14 captains at the Nile are depicted in this 1803 engraving, Hardy was still a lieutenant at the time of the battle.

"Band of brothers" was a phrase used by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson to refer to the captains under his command just before and at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.[1] The phrase, taken from Shakespeare's St Crispin's Day Speech of Henry V, later came to be more generally applied to his relationship with the captains and men under his command, such as at the Battle of Trafalgar.

  1. ^ Mahan 1969, p. 379.