I'll carry mine too!. Trucks and tires must last till victory Chart 24. Gas lasts longer in woods and low places When the thread of the war was broken: the last engagement at Adrianople before the armistice The last stand of the Germans retreating to the Aisne: a French village shelled by the Frenche The sinking of the hospital-ship that brought home the king: last moments of the "Anglia" A fight to the death with stones as missiles: the last stand of heroic Italian alpini The last fights before the armistice: British riflemen clearing a village near Valenciennes One of the British army's last exploits of the war in France: the capture of Maubeuge British observers on the zeppelin shed at Maubeuge: watching the German retreat on the war's last day Denikin's last fight with the bolshevists, and his arrival in London: the end of a heroic struggle Turkey at the last ditch: the Ottoman army facing the Bulgarians on the Tchataldja line Trafalgar: "This is too warm work, Hardy, to last long."