"Nelson's Band of Brothers" Topic

"Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson possessed a genius for naval warfare and remains a towering figure of his age. His victories at the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar, just part of his curriculum vitae; created the Pax Britannica allowing a century of peace and the pre-eminence of the British Empire which only withered with the exertion of defeating Kaiser Bill and then the Axis powers a generation later. Nelson's legacy lives in monuments and also in the many people named after him, deliberately or otherwise.

Nelson did not win his victories alone. He gathered round him a succession of often brilliant and generally sturdy lieutenants to put his bidding into action. They were the captains of his ships and he knew them as his Band of Brothers. They have come to be seen as an elite but the truth is, as ever, more prosaic…"
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