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Nelson asks Captain Hardy to serve as his flag captain: Hardy had first served as Nelson’s flag captain in the Foudroyant after the Nile, transferring with him to the San Josef and to the St George, after which he left Nelson to take command of the 54-gun frigate Isis. Following the offer made to him in this letter, Hardy again joined Nelson at the resumption of war, sailing with him to the Mediterranean in Amphion that May, and turning over with Nelson into the Victory in July. He remained on board the Victory throughout the blockade of Toulon, and the Great Chase to the West Indies and, of course, was her Captain at Trafalgar. It is this letter, therefore, that was to result in Hardy’s Trafalgar command. It is not published by Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters, where only five letters by Nelson to Hardy are printed, all being on official business and all but one formally-worded communications (a further one is printed by White, New Letters).

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