easily-vanquished

Updated: August 17, 2026

And I have heard that a fourth, who had been prominent as a pacifist in the days of an earlier conflict, had written a letter to a colleague as late as the evening of August 1, saying that a war declared merely on grounds of problematical self-interest would create such an outcry in Great Britain as had never been heard here before leaving us a derided and, therefore, easily-vanquished people.

Sir Hall Caine - The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days : Scenes In The Great War