Word: sublimest
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...than conquerors." And yet in the history of the world's great battles he learns that there is, after all, something beyond conquest. A great military here is messured not merely by the completeness of his victory, but by the mercy and magnamity with which he uses it. The sublimest moment in Grant's career was not his victory over Lee, but the great-hearted sympathy for his fee which he showed afterward; there was conquest in the fearful wreck and destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, but there was more than conquest in the act of the captain...