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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... Congress . Almost every young man wanted to be a lawyer , regardless of his literacy or natural aptitude . Many a good farm - hand was spoiled through dallying with law - books . Love of Horses 84 21 Despite this almost universal urge ...
... Congress . Almost every young man wanted to be a lawyer , regardless of his literacy or natural aptitude . Many a good farm - hand was spoiled through dallying with law - books . Love of Horses 84 21 Despite this almost universal urge ...
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... Congress to put the Military Academy out of existence , he wrote a letter to a young cousin named McKinstry Griffith , in which he declared that he liked West Point a lot , and was glad to be there . I shall quote part of this letter ...
... Congress to put the Military Academy out of existence , he wrote a letter to a young cousin named McKinstry Griffith , in which he declared that he liked West Point a lot , and was glad to be there . I shall quote part of this letter ...
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... not been the least homesick . I would not go home on any account whatever . Poor homesick boy ! Writing bravely of the delights of West Point to keep up his courage and scanning the news- • papers in the hope that Congress has put an end.
... not been the least homesick . I would not go home on any account whatever . Poor homesick boy ! Writing bravely of the delights of West Point to keep up his courage and scanning the news- • papers in the hope that Congress has put an end.
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William E. Woodward. papers in the hope that Congress has put an end to the whole affair . $ 4 The curriculum covered a strange hodge - podge of war and culture . Algebra and French , the only studies prescribed for the first year , were ...
William E. Woodward. papers in the hope that Congress has put an end to the whole affair . $ 4 The curriculum covered a strange hodge - podge of war and culture . Algebra and French , the only studies prescribed for the first year , were ...
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... Congress which was so nearly airtight that hardly any measure proposed by a Northern Congressman - unless it happened to be entirely without bearing on Southern affairs- could get itself passed . The Southern theory of gradual ...
... Congress which was so nearly airtight that hardly any measure proposed by a Northern Congressman - unless it happened to be entirely without bearing on Southern affairs- could get itself passed . The Southern theory of gradual ...
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