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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... Point Pleasant , Ohio , in the 1820's . Southern Ohio was then a backwoods region ; every one was poor , and society was acidly plebeian . Any assump tion of elegance evoked invidious backbiting comments . Even moderately well - to - do ...
... Point Pleasant , Ohio , in the 1820's . Southern Ohio was then a backwoods region ; every one was poor , and society was acidly plebeian . Any assump tion of elegance evoked invidious backbiting comments . Even moderately well - to - do ...
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... Point Pleasant around the year 1820 , as the foreman of a small tannery , it was then , as it is now , a tiny place on the Ohio river , twenty - five miles east of Cincinnati . At that time the village dreamed of becoming a metropolis ...
... Point Pleasant around the year 1820 , as the foreman of a small tannery , it was then , as it is now , a tiny place on the Ohio river , twenty - five miles east of Cincinnati . At that time the village dreamed of becoming a metropolis ...
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... Point Pleasant , as his parents moved , when he was about one year old , to Georgetown in the next county . Jesse Root Grant went at the task of dressing hides as cheerfully as if he were carving a piece of ivory . His esthetic sense ...
... Point Pleasant , as his parents moved , when he was about one year old , to Georgetown in the next county . Jesse Root Grant went at the task of dressing hides as cheerfully as if he were carving a piece of ivory . His esthetic sense ...
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... point of obsession . Even as Even as a boy he was the best horseman in Georgetown . His understanding of horses had the easy fluency of Dr. Samuel Johnson's understanding of Latin ; he would mount a horse and master him as readily as ...
... point of obsession . Even as Even as a boy he was the best horseman in Georgetown . His understanding of horses had the easy fluency of Dr. Samuel Johnson's understanding of Latin ; he would mount a horse and master him as readily as ...
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... he left the village to become a cadet at West Point . § 5 I have an impression that he was very lonely and unhappy as a boy . He did not have any close boy or girl friends , according to the evidence , and most of his days.
... he left the village to become a cadet at West Point . § 5 I have an impression that he was very lonely and unhappy as a boy . He did not have any close boy or girl friends , according to the evidence , and most of his days.
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