His success in conquering Sicily earned him the surname of "the Great."
An army gains a victory, and at once the rights of the conquering nation have increased to the detriment of the defeated.
What boy doesn't dream of conquering the world?
The conquering Turks followed in their footsteps (560-580).
As the British fleet had abandoned the Mediterranean since November 1796 and had recently been disorganized by two serious mutinies, Bonaparte's plan of conquering Egypt was .by no means so rash as has sometimes been represented.
