Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index They shall not pass (Fr. "Ils ne passeront pas"), (Sp. "ˇNO PASARAN!") is a propaganda slogan used to express determination to defend a position against an enemy. It was most famously used during the Battle of Verdun in World War I by General Henri Philippe Petain, and was used again in the defense of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War by Dolores Ibárruri Gómez ("La Pasionaria"), Communist orator and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Spain. The phrase has been used as recently as December 2002 by Colonel Emmanual Maurin, commanding a French Foreign Legion unit in Côte d'Ivoire. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.