"There is no other course open to us but to fight it out. Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end. The safety of our homes and the freedom of mankind depend alike upon the conduct of each one of us at this critical moment."
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Special Order of the Day (12 April 1918) during the Spring Offensive, quoted in The Times (13 April 1918), p. 7
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