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When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined, “There is one certain means,” replied Prince William of Orange, “by which I can be sure never to see my country’s ruin, — I will die in the last ditch.” (origin of the term "last ditch stand.")