Nunquam Retrorsum

Searching using Google shows: "No one shall cause our retreat" (Latin)

Also roughly translated as "Never retreat".

Motto of 'Les Fusiliers de Mont-Royal', Canadian military.

Wow, I can't believe I didn't think of doing a google search!

Still, I find the translation, and the source, rather odd. It's the slogan for the student community at my school, so that fact that it's a slogan from the Canadian army I find very odd. The 'group' is some 150 years old, but still, it's in Norway(!).

Why odd? Schools (particularly private ones) often pattern their spirited mottos after the effort to instill team spirit etc. done in military.

That source was not the only source, BTW.

Oh, you're welcome.

Origianally, it's the motto of the Welfs (aka Hannover).

The Canadians got it via Brunswick = Braunschweig = a Welf dukedom.

Maybe you're right, I' not really up to date with all aspects of history.

Thanks Ragman.

The full quote, btw, is "Nunquam retrorsum, fortes adiuvat fortuna!" = 'Never backward, luck is with the brave'.
That is the motto of Corps Hannovera Göttingen, one of the oldest German Student Corps, a Studentenverbindung or student corporation founded 18 January 1809 at the Georg August University of Göttingen in the (former) kingdom of Hannover (Welfs :wink: ).

Didn't see your post there, walter. Thanks! Just what I was looking for! I don't know if my school has any connection with this movement, historically speaking, but I'll look into it.

Actually, it seems that the Welfs used this as their motto since about 900. Or even earlier.

Ok, then I doubt there is any historical or ideological connection between the two. Unlikely but not impossible. The school was originally a latin school so it's also possible that there isn't any external connection. But my guess is that they read it in a history book or maybe found the history interesting.

Well, now that I know what a latin phrase means I guess the only reasonable thing to do is to tatoo it across my butt-cheek. Preferably accompanied by a huge emerald dragon.

Perhaps you use the following as a master, start a business and send me some royalities?




(That's from 17hundred-and something)

Woah, thats beautiful! You know where it's from?

That's a spontoon ...


... from the time of Duke Karl I

I'm impressed on how much you've managed to dig up, walter. But tell me, do you know what the symbols mean(the horse and the oval shape)? Or are they just symbols of the king and queen? (judging from the crowns above the engravings, they might be)

The horse is the "Lower Saxony Horse".
NB (as opposed to the above wiki article): http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de-nw-w).html [copy that complete link, included the black ".html"!]- that is more correct!

The double 'C' might be connected to the "Collegium Carolinum" (mentioned in a previous wiki-link, now the [Technical] Brunswick University.
(Though I'm not absolutely sure - but one "C" surely means something "Carolus".

The crown is the 'rank crown' of [German] dukes:

Source of info please
Wow ! I'm amazed by what I'm reading here! I served in The Fusiliers Mont-Royal and never gave our motto a second thought. To find it dates more than a century is quite a revelation. I'd like to prepare a little presentation on the subject - could I have your sourced to the pics & info ? Great find !!!

I came here looking for a translation of "Nunquam retrorsum" because that is the Motto of the city of New Rochelle, NY.
New Rochelle was settled beginning in 1688 - mostly by French Huguenots (French Protestants - many from the town of Rochelle, France) who were fleeing religious persecution from French Catholics...

So the motto may have meant something like 'Never look back' or 'Never return' for them... rather than 'Never Retreat' as they were not the aggressors in a battle, but rather looking to establish a new life in a new land... In that sense it might also have implied "Have no regrets".

You would benefit from reading the whole thread. It is not a very long one.