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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... NORTH AT WAR . 263 XX . THE VICKSBURG Adventure XXI . GRANT IS MADE GENERAL - IN - CHIEF . XXII . GRANT AND LEE XXIII . THE SUNSET OF THE CONFEDERACY • 282 • 302 320 333 CHAPTER XXIV . THE ERA OF ANDREW JACKSON XXV .
... NORTH AT WAR . 263 XX . THE VICKSBURG Adventure XXI . GRANT IS MADE GENERAL - IN - CHIEF . XXII . GRANT AND LEE XXIII . THE SUNSET OF THE CONFEDERACY • 282 • 302 320 333 CHAPTER XXIV . THE ERA OF ANDREW JACKSON XXV .
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... North ? Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people ...
... North ? Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people ...
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... North and South . There was hardly any flow of population between the two sections , which were geographically so near together , but so far apart in sentiment . Lack of contact and exchange of ideas brought about innumerable ...
... North and South . There was hardly any flow of population between the two sections , which were geographically so near together , but so far apart in sentiment . Lack of contact and exchange of ideas brought about innumerable ...
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... North was not in the least behind the South . Up to the beginning of the Civil War a large and influential body of opinion in every part of the country considered secession as an inalienable right of any state . For the sake of truth it ...
... North was not in the least behind the South . Up to the beginning of the Civil War a large and influential body of opinion in every part of the country considered secession as an inalienable right of any state . For the sake of truth it ...
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... north of the 36 ° 30 ' parallel of latitude , which is the southern border line of the state of Missouri . The country was divided by the Missouri Compromise into two opposing parts . A neat piece of anatomical dissection . Imaginary ...
... north of the 36 ° 30 ' parallel of latitude , which is the southern border line of the state of Missouri . The country was divided by the Missouri Compromise into two opposing parts . A neat piece of anatomical dissection . Imaginary ...
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