Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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William E. Woodward. William WE WOODWARD MEET GENERAL GRANT WITH TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS THE LITERARY GUILD OF AMERICA TO MY MOTHER D 0 CHAPTER CONTENTS I. MEN AND.
William E. Woodward. William WE WOODWARD MEET GENERAL GRANT WITH TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS THE LITERARY GUILD OF AMERICA TO MY MOTHER D 0 CHAPTER CONTENTS I. MEN AND.
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... American ancestry , sharply defined and easy to trace . He came of a race of Con- necticut Yankees who had lived on their sorry New England farms from 1630 until poverty drove them westward a few years after the American Revolution ...
... American ancestry , sharply defined and easy to trace . He came of a race of Con- necticut Yankees who had lived on their sorry New England farms from 1630 until poverty drove them westward a few years after the American Revolution ...
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... American race . The conquest of nature acquired a romanticism that is equaled only , in our day , by the golden aura which surrounds the gospel of commercial success . Yet , strong as was this passion for nature , it was destined soon ...
... American race . The conquest of nature acquired a romanticism that is equaled only , in our day , by the golden aura which surrounds the gospel of commercial success . Yet , strong as was this passion for nature , it was destined soon ...
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... America , and especially the history of the United States . ” The course in mathematics was fairly thorough , as it began with algebra and went on up through trigonometry , analytic geometry and a part of the calculus - put down under ...
... America , and especially the history of the United States . ” The course in mathematics was fairly thorough , as it began with algebra and went on up through trigonometry , analytic geometry and a part of the calculus - put down under ...
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... American nation was loading Grant with gifts . Phila- delphia gave him a house ; New York gave him one hundred ... America . Consequently , while our generals were working out problems of an ideal char- acter , problems that would have ...
... American nation was loading Grant with gifts . Phila- delphia gave him a house ; New York gave him one hundred ... America . Consequently , while our generals were working out problems of an ideal char- acter , problems that would have ...
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