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The earliest written citation of the noun phrase in Google Books was by British writer John Shipp (1784-1834).  The name of the work was "Paddy and the French Cavalry", retelling an incident allegedly occuring at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] in a very short account in ''The Military Bijou or the Contents of a Soldier's Knapsack Being the Gleanings of Thirty-Three Years Active Service'' from 1831 (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co.), p. 186.

The earliest written citation of the noun phrase in Google Books was by British writer John Shipp (1784-1834).  The name of the work was "Paddy and the French Cavalry", retelling an incident allegedly occuring at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] in a very short account in ''The Military Bijou or the Contents of a Soldier's Knapsack Being the Gleanings of Thirty-Three Years Active Service'' from 1831 (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co.), p. 186.

:"This was poor Paddy's ''last hurrah''; for scarce had the words died upon his lips, when a cannon shot poor warm-hearted Pat of that which a looks very queer without—his head."

:"This was poor Paddy's ''last hurrah''; for scarce had the words died upon his lips, when a cannon shot poor warm-hearted Pat of that which a man looks very queer without—his head."

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