Some exploits are higher up on the glory scale than others.
At least John Sullivan must have felt so when the request arrived. The Revolutionary War hero had fought in many battles, been captured at Long Island, and later had carried out a scorched earth policy against Britain's Native American allies in central New York and the Genesee Valley, destroying villages and crops and driving the Indians all the way to the Niagara frontier. He had gone on after the war to serve as a delegate to the Continental Congress, attorney-general of New Hampshire and then the state's governor. A distinguished career. Then Thomas Jefferson, ambassador to France, ordered a moose.