St Crispin's Day Speech

• During the Napoleonic Wars, just prior to the Battle of the Nile, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, then Rear Admiral of the Blue, referred to his captains as his "band of brothers".[3]
• Charles Dickens' magazine Household Words (1850-1851) took its name from the speech.[4]
• During the First Barbary War, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr. proclaimed "the fewer men, the greater share of honor," before leading a raiding party to destroy the USS Philadelphia (1799).[5]
• During World War II, Laurence Olivier delivered the speech during a radio programme to boost British morale and Winston Churchill found him so inspiring that he asked Olivier to produce the Shakespeare play as a film. Olivier's adaptation appeared in 1944.[3]
• The title of British politician Duff Cooper's autobiography Old Men Forget (1953) is taken from the speech.[6]
• During the legal battle for the U.S. presidential election of 2000, regarding the Florida vote recount, members of the Florida legal team for George W. Bush, the eventual legal victor, joined arms and recited the speech during a break in preparation, to motivate themselves.[7]
• On the day of the result of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, as the vote to leave became clear, activist and MEP Daniel Hannan is reported to have delivered an edited version of the speech from a table, replacing the names Bedford, Exeter, Warwick and Talbot with other prominent Vote Leave activists.[8][9]

Parts and/or versions of the speech appear in films such as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962),[10][11] Tombstone (1993),[12] Renaissance Man (1994),[13] Tea With Mussolini (1999),[14] Mystery Men (1999),[12] This Is England (2006),[15] and Their Finest (2017).[16] It has also been used in television series such as Rough Riders (1997),[17][18] Buffy the Vampire Slayer,[19][20] The Black Adder,[21][22] Doctor Who,[23] and Phineas and Ferb[24].

• The phrase "band of brothers" appears in the 1789 song "Hail, Columbia", written for the inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States.[3]
• During the American Civil War, "The Bonnie Blue Flag"—a 1861 Confederate marching song written by Harry McCarthy—began with the words "We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil".[25]
• Stephen Ambrose borrowed the phrase "Band of Brothers" for the title of his 1992 book on E Company of the 101st Airborne during World War II; it was later adapted into the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers. In the closing scene of the series, Carwood Lipton quotes from Shakespeare's speech.[3]
• The 2016 videogame We Happy Few takes its name from the speech.[26]
• A part of the speech is quoted in the 2017 novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy as one of the character's mother's favourite passage from Shakespeare which is recited (silently) at her second funeral.[27]
• In the Shane Meadows film This is England, a fictional National Front politician attributes the quote "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" to "an English king on the battlefield", mistaking it for a historical quotation, emphasising his ignorance and intellectual pretensions.

• Barker, Juliet (2005). Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle. London: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-72648-1.
• "The St. Crispin's Day Speech". Folger Shakespeare Library. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
• Harris, James. "Oral History of the President's Speech in 'Independence Day'". Complex. Retrieved 13 December 2015.