assommoir

• They would recognize any people which established its independence, but they could not encourage the prolongation of a fruitless struggle Monsieur Mercier thought that if the Confederates were very much discouraged by their recent reverses, such language from the Minister of a great European Power might be a knock-down blow ('Coup d'assommoir' was the expression he used) to them It might induce them to come to terms with the North. —  Great Britain and the American Civil War
• "Monsieur Mercier thought that if the Confederates were very much discouraged by their recent reverses, such language from the Minister of a great European Power might be a knock-down blow ( 'Coup d'assommoir' was the expression he used) to them. —  Great Britain and the American Civil War

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