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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... John Brown Abraham Lincoln Jefferson 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 ...
... John Brown Abraham Lincoln Jefferson 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 ...
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... John D. White , for three months in a year , scat- tered knowledge to his pupils as one scatters crumbs to sparrows . The crumbs were poor in quality and few in num- ber , but this meant nothing to Ulysses , whose intellectual hunger ...
... John D. White , for three months in a year , scat- tered knowledge to his pupils as one scatters crumbs to sparrows . The crumbs were poor in quality and few in num- ber , but this meant nothing to Ulysses , whose intellectual hunger ...
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... John A. Rawlins , who knew Grant more intimately than any other man ever knew him , says that he had never read a book on strategy . There is confirmatory evidence of the truth of this asser- tion in an incident that occurred after the ...
... John A. Rawlins , who knew Grant more intimately than any other man ever knew him , says that he had never read a book on strategy . There is confirmatory evidence of the truth of this asser- tion in an incident that occurred after the ...
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... John Russell Young many years later . " I do not mean the highest grade , but the most thorough in its discipline . A boy to go through four years in West Point must have the essential ele- ments of a strong , manly character . Lacking ...
... John Russell Young many years later . " I do not mean the highest grade , but the most thorough in its discipline . A boy to go through four years in West Point must have the essential ele- ments of a strong , manly character . Lacking ...
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... John C. Calhoun and the young Jefferson Davis , maintained that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery anywhere , under any circum- stances ; that slaves were a species of property and that slave- owning had all the time - honored ...
... John C. Calhoun and the young Jefferson Davis , maintained that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery anywhere , under any circum- stances ; that slaves were a species of property and that slave- owning had all the time - honored ...
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