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And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, La Garde meurt, mais ne se rend pas.

The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, The guard dies but does not surrender.
Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, Attributed to LIEUT. GEN. PIERRE JACQUES,
And swiftly forming in the ranks of war;

BARON DE CAMBRONNE, when called to surAnd the deep thunder peal on peal, afar

render by COL. HUGH HALKETT. CamAnd near; the beat of the alarming drum

bronne disavowed the saying at a banquet Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; at Nantes, 1835. The London Times on the While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Centenary of the battle of Waterloo pubOr whispering with white lips—"The foe! they lished a letter, written at 11 P. M. on the come! they come!”

evening of the battle, by CAPT. DIGBY BYRON-Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 25. MACKWORTH, of the 7th Fusiliers, A. D.C.

to Gen. Hill. In it the phrase is quoted as Battle's magnificently stern array!

already familiar. FOURNIER in L'Esprit BYRON-Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 28. dans l'histoire, pp. 412–15, ascribes it to 8

correspondent of the Independant, ROUGEThe Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, MONT. It appeared there the next day, and And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. afterwards in the Journal General de France, BYRON—Destruction of Sennacherib.

June 24. This seems also improbable in view

of the above mentioned letter. See also Like the leaves of the forest when summer is VICTOR HUGO—Les Miserables. Waterloo.

green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen;

War will never yield but to the principles of Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath universal justice and love, and these have no blown,

sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ. That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown! WM. ELLERY CHANNING—Lecture on War. BYRON—Destruction of Sennacherib.

Sec. II.

11 Hand to hand, and foot to foot:

O Chryste, it is a grief for me to telle,

How manie a noble erle and valrous knyghte Nothing there, save death, was mute; Stroke, and thrust, and flash, and cry

In fyghtynge for Kynge Harrold noblie fell, For quarter or for victory,

Aỉ sleyne on Hastyng's field in bloudie fyghte. Mingle there with the volleying thunder.

CHATTERTON—Battle of Hastings.

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Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine

injuria in pace vivatur. Veni, vidi, vici.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it I came, I saw, I conquered.

may be possible to live in peace without molesAttributed to JULIUS CÆSAR. PLUTARCH

tation. Life of Cæsar, states it was spoken after the CICERO—De Officiis. I. 11. defeat of Pharnaces, at Zela in Pontus, B.C. 47, not the Expedition to Britain, B. C. 55. Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium According to SUETONIUS- Julius Cæsar. 37, domi. the words were not Cæsar's but were dis

An army abroad is of little use unless there played before Cæsar's title, "non acta belli are prudent counsels at home. significantem, sicut ceteri, sed celeriter con

CICERO—De Officiis. I. 22. fecti notam." Not as being a record of

14 the events of the war, as in other cases, Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, but as an indication of the rapidity with nisi pax, quæsita videatur. which it was concluded. Ne insolens bar

Let war be so carried on that no other obbarus dicat, "Ueni, uidi, uici.” Never shall insolent barbarian say “I came, I saw, I

ject may seem to be sought but the acquisi

tion of peace. conquered." SENECA THE ELDER-Suæso CICERO–De Officiis. I. 23. ria. II. 22. BUECHMANN, quoting the above, suggests that Cæsar's words may be

Silent leges inter arma. an adaptation of a proverb by APOSTOLIUS. The law is silent during war. XII. 58. (Or XIV, in Elzivir Ed.

CICERO_Oratio Pro Annio Milone. IV. Leyden, 1653.)

16 (See also HENRY IV, SOBIESKI)

Pro aris et focis. 7

For your altars and your fires. In bello parvis momentis magni casus inter CICERO_Oration for Roscius. Ch. V. Also cedunt.

used by TIBERIUS GRACCHUS before this. In war events of importance are the result of

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Nervi belli pecunia infinita. CÆSAR-Bellum Gallicum. I. 21.

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CICERO-Philippics. V. 2. 5. LIBANTUSThe combat deepens. On, ye brave,

Orations. XLVI. PHOTIUS—Let. S. 5. Who rush to glory, or the grave!

RABELAIS–Gargantua. Bk. I. Ch. XXVI. Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,

("Corn" for "money.") And charge with all thy chivalry.

(See also HULL, PLUTARCH, also Bion under CAMPBELL-Hohenlinden.

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Well here's to the Maine, and I'm sorry for Non si passa, passereme noi.
Spain,

The words ascribed to GENERAL Diaz by the Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.

Italians at the battle of the Piave and J. I. C. CLARKE—The Fighting Race.

Monta Grappa, June, 1918. These words

are inscribed on the medals struck off for We made war to the end-to the very end of the heroes of this battle. the end.

(See also BATES, PÉTAIN) CLEMENCEAU—Message to American People. Sept., 1918.

What argufies pride and ambition?

Soon or late death will take us in tow: What voice did on my spirit fall,

Each bullet has got its commission, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crossed?

And when our time's come we must go. “'Tis better to have fought and lost,

CHARLES DIBDIN—The Benevolent Tar. Than never to have fought at all.”

(See also GASCOIGNE) ARTHUR H. CoUGH-Peschiera. (See also TENNYSON under LOVE)

A feat of chivalry, fiery with consummate

courage, and bright with flashing vigor. War in fact is becoming contemptible, and BENJ. DISRAELI. Of the Charge of the Light ought to be put down by the great nations of Brigade. In the House of Commons, Dec. Europe, just as we put down a vulgar mob.

15, 1855. MORTIMER COLLINS—Thoughts in my Garden. II. 243.

Carry his body hence!

Kings must have slaves: The flames of Moscow were the aurora of the Kings climb to eminence liberty of the world.

Over men's graves: BENJ. CONSTANT—Esprit de Conquête. Pref So this man's eye is dim; ace. (1813)

Throw the earth over him!

HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON—Before Sedan. Hence jarring sectaries may learn

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They now to fight are gone;
That brother should not war with brother, Armor on armor shone;
And worry and devour each other.

Drum now to drum did groan,
COWPER—The Nightingale and Glow-Worm. To hear was wonder;

That with the cries they make, But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, The very earth did shake; Kings would not play at.

Trumpet to trumpet spake, COWPER—Task. Bk. V. L. 187.

Thunder to thunder.

DRAYTON-Ballad of Agincourt. St. 8. General Taylor never surrenders.

(See also TENNYSON)
Thos. L. CRITTENDEN—Reply to Gen. Santa
Anna. Buena Vista. Feb. 22, 1847. War, he sung, is toil and trouble;

Honour but an empty bubble.
We give up the fort when there's not a man DRYDEN–Alexander's Feast. L. 99.
left to defend it.
GENERAL CROGHAN. At Fort Stevenson. (1812) All delays are dangerous in war.

DRYDEN-Tyrannic Love. Act I. Sc. 1.
From fear in every guise,
From sloth, from love of pelf,

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may By war's great sacrifice

th' best man win

an'th' best man The world redeems itself.

will win. J. DAVIDSON–War Song.

FINLEY PETER DUNNE-Mr. Dooley in Peace

and War. On Prayers for Victory. Qui fugiebat, rusus præliabitur. The man who flies shall fight again.

'Tis startin' a polis foorce to prevint war. DEMOSTHENES, on his flight at the battle of

How'll they be ar-rmed? What a foolChæronea, B.C. 338. Credited to him by ish question. They'll be ar-rmed with love, if TERTULLIAN-De Fuga in Persecutione. Sec. coorse. Who'll pay thim? That's a financyal X. See CARDINAL NEWMAN—Church of detail that can be arranged later on. What'll The Fathers. P. 215. Same expression in happen if wan iv th’ rough-necks reaches f'r a ÆLIANUS. 1. 3. 4. 5. AULUS GELLIUS, gun? Don't bother me with thrifles. Bk. XVII. 21. 32. NEPOS—Thrasbulus. FINLEY PETER DUNNE-On Making a Will. Ch. II. JUSTINUS. 9. 6.

Mr. Dooley's version of W. J. BRYAN'S (See also BUTLER)

Speech. (1920) Di qui non si passa,

There is no discharge in that war. By here they shall not pass.

Ecclesiastes. VIII. 8. GENERAL DIAZ. Words inscribed on the Altar

of Liberty temporarily erected at Madison By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Square, Ñ. Y., on the authority of Il Prog Their flag to April's breeze unfurl’d; resso Italiano.

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And fired the shot heard round the world.
EMERSON—-Hymn sung at the completion of the There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Concord Monument.

BENJ. FRANKLIN-Letter to Quincy. Sept. 11,

1773. That same man that renneth awaie Maie fight again on other daie.

Your flaming torch aloft we bear,
ERASMUS--Apothegms. Given as a saying of With burning heart an oath we swear

Demosthenes, and quoted as a “verse com To keep the faith, to fight it through,
mon in every body's mouth.” Tr. by UDALL. To crush the foe or sleep with you
(1542)

In Flanders' fields.
(See also BUTLER)

C. B. GALBREATH. Answer to McCRAE'S

In Flanders' Fields.
Ares (the God of War) hates those who hesitate.
EURIPIDES—Heraclidæ. 722.

When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled

swords fail, Jellicoe has all the Nelsonic attributes except

These three who have walked with Death-these one he is totally wanting in the great gift of

shall prevail. insubordination.

Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends LORD FISHER-Letter to a Privy Councillor.

three: Dec. 27, 1916.

Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity.

THEODOSIA GARRISON—These shall Prevail. My right has been rolled up. My left has

Sufficeth this to prove my theme withal, been driven back. My center has been smashed.

That every bullet hath a lighting place. I have ordered an advance from all directions.

GASCOIGNE–Dulce Bellum Inexpertis. GEN. FOCH-Letter to MARSHAL JOFFRE dur

(See also BISMARCK, DIBDIN, SMOLLETT, ing the Battle of the Marne.

WILLIAM III) Then came the attack in the Amiens sector on O, send Lewis Gordon hame August 8. That went well, too. The moment

And the lad I maune name, had arrived. I ordered General Humbert to at-Though his back be at the wa' tack in his turn. “No reserves. No matter. Here's to him that's far awa'. Allez-y (Get on with it) I tell Marshal Haig to O, hon! my Highlandman, attack, too. He's short of men also. Attack all O, my bonny Highlandman, the same. There we are advancing everywhere Weel would I my true love ken --the whole line! En avant! Hup!

Among ten thousand Highlandmen. GEN. Foch. In an interview with G. WARD Accredited to GEDDES—Lewis Gordon. In

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We have 500,000 reservists in America who All the same, the fundamental truths which would rise in arms against your government. govern that art are still unchangeable; just as ZIMMERMANN to AMBASSADOR GERARD. the principles of mechanics must always govern I told him that we had five hundred thousand architecture, whether the building be made of and one lamp posts in America, and that was wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the prin. where the German reservists would find then ciples of harmony govern music of whatever selves if they tried any uprising. kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the AMBASSADOR GERARD's answer. JAMES W. principles of war.

GERARD-My Four Years in Germany. P. GEN. FOCH-Principles of War. From the 237.

preface written for the post-bellum edition. 7

It is an olde saw, he fighteth wele (well) that I am going on to the Rhine. If you oppose fleith faste. me, so much the worse for you, but whether Gesta Romanorum. Wolf and the Hare. 15th you sign an armistice or not, I do not stop until cent. MS. I reach the Rhine.

(See also BUTLER) GEN. Foch to the Germans who came to ask

for an armistice. As reported by G. WARD Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by PRICE in the London Daily Mail. (1919) French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnash

ing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs Keep the home fires burning, while your hearts will turn us from our aim of protecting and exare yearning,

tending German influence all the world over. Tho' your lads are far away they dream of Official secret report of the Germans, quoted in home.

the French Yellow Book. There's a silver lining through the dark cloud shining;

Ye living soldiers of the mighty war, Turn the dark cloud inside out till the boys Once more from roaring cannon and the drums come home.

And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes; MRS. LENA GUILBERT FORD. Theme sug Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar:

gested by Ivor NOVELLO, who wrote the Once more your Captain calls to you;
music. Sung by the soldiers in the Great Come to his last review!
War.

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die. diate surrender can be accepted. I propose to COL. WILLIAM HAYWARD to a French General move immediately upon your works.

who cried to him to retire his troops, the U. S. GRANT-To Gen. S. B. Buckner. Fort

369th Infantry, colored. See N. Y. Herald. Donelson. Feb. 16, 1862.

Feb. 3, 1919. Attributed also to MAJOR 3

BUNDY, but denied by him. I

purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Napoleon healed through sword and fire the U. S. GRANT--Despatch from Spottsylvania sick nation. Court House. May 11, 1864.

HEINE. See SCHERER—History of German

Literature. II. 116. The British army should be a projectile to be fired by the British navy.

Hang yourself, brave Crillon. We fought at VISCOUNT GREY. Quoted by LORD FISHER, Arques, and you were not there.

in Memories, as "the splendid words of Sir HENRY IÙ, to Crillon after a great victory. Edward Grey."

Sept. 20, 1597. Appeared in a note to 5

VOLTAIRE's Henriade. VIII. 109. Con disavvantaggio grande si fa la guerra con chi non ha che perdere.

Just for a word—“neutrality," a word which We fight to great disadvantage when we in war-time had so often been disregarded—just fight with those who have nothing to lose. for a scrap of paper, Great Britain was going to GUICCIARDINI–Storia d'Italia.

make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.

BETHMANN-HOLLWEG, German Chancellor, to Every position must be held to the last man.

SIR EDWARD GOSCHEN, British AmbassaThere must be no retirement. With our backs

dor, Aug. 4, 1914. to the wall, and believing in the justice of our

(See also LOYSON, and WILLIAM I. under Govcause, each one of us must fight to the end.

ERNMENT)
FIELD MARSHAL Haig. . At the battle of
Picardy. (1918) See also GEDDES. Song

Bleak are our shores with the blasts of Decemprobably well known to Haig.

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Fettered and chill is the rivulet's flow; Yes; quaint and curious war is!

Throbbing and warm are the hearts that rememYou shoot a fellow down

ber You'd treat if met where any bar is,

Who was our friend when the world was our Or help to half-a-crown.

foe. Thos. HARDY—The Man he Killed.

HOLMES—Welcome to the Grand Duke Alexis,

Dec. 6, 1871. Referring to the fleet sent by They were left in the lurch

Russia in Sept., 1863, an act with mixed For want of more wadding-He ran to the motives, but for which we were grateful. church

I war not with the dead. With his arms full of hymnbooks

HOMER-Iliad. Bk. VII. L. 485. POPE's Rang his voice, “Put Watts into 'em-Boys, trans. CHARLES V. Of Luther. Found in give 'em Watts."

W. L. HERTSLET—Der Treppenwitz der BRET HARTE—Caldwell of Springfield.

Weltgeschichte.

(See also VERGIL) An hour ago, a Star was falling.

18 Take thou thy arms and come with me, A star? There's nothing strange in that.

For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive No, nothing; but above the thicket,

To aid our cause, although we be but two. Somehow it seemed to me that God

Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, Somewhere had just relieved a picket.

And we can combat even with the brave.

HOMER—Iliad. Bk. XIII. L. 289. BRYBRET HARTE— Relieving Guard. (See also BEERS)

ANT's trans. Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands,

The chance of war And of armed men the hum;

Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain. Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered

HOMER-Iliad. Bk. XVIII. L. 388. BRYRound the quick alarming drum

ANT's trans.
Saying, Come,
Freemen, Come!

Our business in the field of fight
Ere your heritage be wasted,

Is not to question, but to prove our might. Said the quick alarming drum.

HOMER-Iliad. Bk. XX. L. 304. POPE's BRET HARTE—The Rèveille.

trans.

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