英语词汇the guard dies but never surrenders的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the guard dies but never surrenders
词源	the Guard dies but never surrenders. History courses teach us that General Pierre Cambronne, the commander of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard at Waterloo, made the above re- ply to a British surrender demand. What Cambronne really said was “Shit! The Guard never surrenders!” The polite French call this episode le mot de Cambronne, “the word of Cambronne.”
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