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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... Davis . Grant's " Unconditional Surrender " Message John A. Rawlins · · General William Tecumseh Sherman Recruiting Office in City Hall Park , New York Wartime Photographs of General Grant General Robert E. Lee The McLean House at ...
... Davis . Grant's " Unconditional Surrender " Message John A. Rawlins · · General William Tecumseh Sherman Recruiting Office in City Hall Park , New York Wartime Photographs of General Grant General Robert E. Lee The McLean House at ...
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... Davis were related by marriage , but they were a thousand miles apart in mental quality . Davis was a logician —a keen and brilliant sophist . In his mind everything was kept bright and shining , and in its proper place , like the tools ...
... Davis were related by marriage , but they were a thousand miles apart in mental quality . Davis was a logician —a keen and brilliant sophist . In his mind everything was kept bright and shining , and in its proper place , like the tools ...
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... Davis was stub- bornly opinionated ; he had the narrow outlook that often goes with a high culture . His father - in - law was stubborn , too , but his stubbornness came from prejudice and ignorance . Taylor's soldiers called him " Old ...
... Davis was stub- bornly opinionated ; he had the narrow outlook that often goes with a high culture . His father - in - law was stubborn , too , but his stubbornness came from prejudice and ignorance . Taylor's soldiers called him " Old ...
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... Mexican loss was even greater . Santa Anna's army was terribly beaten , notwithstanding its immense numerical superiority . Taylor was the outstanding hero of the great day at Buena Vista , but Jefferson Davis also won renown . At.
... Mexican loss was even greater . Santa Anna's army was terribly beaten , notwithstanding its immense numerical superiority . Taylor was the outstanding hero of the great day at Buena Vista , but Jefferson Davis also won renown . At.
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... Davis to the leadership of the Confederacy . Through his single military exploit Davis acquired an ab- surdly exaggerated reputation . As its echoes came back to him he began to look upon himself as a great strategist , though he was ...
... Davis to the leadership of the Confederacy . Through his single military exploit Davis acquired an ab- surdly exaggerated reputation . As its echoes came back to him he began to look upon himself as a great strategist , though he was ...
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