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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... 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 Robert E. Lee The ...
... 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 Robert E. Lee The ...
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... girls on sleigh rides . . . loads of them at a time , boys and girls , gliding over the crisp snow under the yellow winter moon . For this service he was Lincoln 27 in great demand , for he had a 26 Meet General Grant.
... girls on sleigh rides . . . loads of them at a time , boys and girls , gliding over the crisp snow under the yellow winter moon . For this service he was Lincoln 27 in great demand , for he had a 26 Meet General Grant.
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... Lincoln , despite Lincoln's extreme lowness of origin and the poverty of his early years . Lincoln looked instinctively to the dim twilight regions of the human spirit for his sense of values . The images of men and events did not fall ...
... Lincoln , despite Lincoln's extreme lowness of origin and the poverty of his early years . Lincoln looked instinctively to the dim twilight regions of the human spirit for his sense of values . The images of men and events did not fall ...
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... Lincoln was elected on a platform which was bitterly fought by the more deter- mined among the abolitionists because it did not call for an immediate ending of slavery . Among the comfortable , moneyed classes in the North - who are ...
... Lincoln was elected on a platform which was bitterly fought by the more deter- mined among the abolitionists because it did not call for an immediate ending of slavery . Among the comfortable , moneyed classes in the North - who are ...
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... Lincoln , an Illi- nois lawyer who had served in Congress , and who had been defeated by Douglas as a candidate for the Senate in 1856 . Though he had been beaten by Douglas he had made a national reputation for himself in the Lincoln ...
... Lincoln , an Illi- nois lawyer who had served in Congress , and who had been defeated by Douglas as a candidate for the Senate in 1856 . Though he had been beaten by Douglas he had made a national reputation for himself in the Lincoln ...
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