vanquish

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.