Victory or death is a phrase, a motto, and sometimes given as the translation of several mottoes.

• The motto is used by the 32nd Armored Regiment of the United States Army. It is visible on the yellow-and-red regimental emblem in some photographs of Elvis Presley during his Army service in Germany with that regiment, and in his later film "G.I. Blues". The emblem also appears on the black beret seen in the 1986 film " Ferris Buellers Day Off".

• A similar motto is used by the 442 Field Artillery Battalion, VICTORIA LAETA AUT MORS "Glorious victory or death". ^[1]

• The Maniots of the Mani Peninsula in Greece used "Victory or Death" as their motto in 1821 when they joined the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.

• Lt. Col. William Barrett Travis signed "Victory or Death!" at the end of the last letter sent from the Alamo Mission in San Antonio during the Battle of the Alamo ( February 23, 1836 – March 6, 1836).

• It is chanted by the starfighters in The Last Starfighter.

• It was used at the watchword for the attack on the Hessians by George Washington on Christmas night, 1776.

• Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses frontman, has the emblem of the 32nd Armored Regiment and it's motto "Victory or Death", tattooed on his left arm.

• "Victory or Death" was also an order given to Erwin Rommel and Friedrich Paulus at the Second Battle of El Alamein ( October 23, 1942 – November 3, 1942) and the Battle of Stalingrad ( August 21, 1942 - February 2, 1943), respectively, by Adolf Hitler in 1942.

• "Victory or death" is sometimes attributed as the translation of the heraldic motto found on the crest badges used by members of several Scottish clans. These include Clan MacDougall (BUAIDH NO BAS - "Victory or death"); Clan Macdowall (VINCERE VEL MORI - "To conquer or die"); Clan Maclaine of Lochbuie (VINCERE VEL MORI - "To conquer or die"); Clan MacNeil (BUAIDH NO BAS - "Victory or death").

• "Victory or Death!" is the motto of the Horde in the popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft. "Lok'tar ogar! Victory or death... the most sacred and fundamental of truths to any warrior of the Horde."

• “VINCE AUT MORIRE” (Conquer or Die) used on Bedford flag. 1

Victory or Death: "Victory" was the sign and "Or Death" countersign for American troops at Valley Forge during the American Revolution. It was used when the American forces sallied from Valley Forge to attack the Hessian forces at Trenton. General George Washington had decided to gamble his entire force in one last major push. He had decided to either win a dramatic victory over the Hessian/British forces that would rally the colonists against the British, or to lose his army in an effort to shame the American colonials into rallying to the cause.

"Rebels and Redcoats" 1956

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