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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... . THE 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 .
... . THE 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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... Vicksburg - was not so much a feat of strategy as it was of mechanics and transportation . In the Mexican War he had not only his pacifist inclinations to overcome , but also his feeling that the war was utterly unjust . On this subject ...
... Vicksburg - was not so much a feat of strategy as it was of mechanics and transportation . In the Mexican War he had not only his pacifist inclinations to overcome , but also his feeling that the war was utterly unjust . On this subject ...
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... Vicksburg to Grant . ) On September 14 , 1847 , Scott's army entered the city , and the Mexican War was at an end . According to the terms of the peace treaty Mexico had to give up all her territory north of the Rio Grande , including ...
... Vicksburg to Grant . ) On September 14 , 1847 , Scott's army entered the city , and the Mexican War was at an end . According to the terms of the peace treaty Mexico had to give up all her territory north of the Rio Grande , including ...
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... Vicksburg , another one in Mississippi under John- ston , besides a large number of men in forts and garrisons , yet the Confederate war department declared that Lee carried with him all the men who could be spared . Lee , with his ...
... Vicksburg , another one in Mississippi under John- ston , besides a large number of men in forts and garrisons , yet the Confederate war department declared that Lee carried with him all the men who could be spared . Lee , with his ...
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... Vicksburg , wrote of him : " He bossed everything at Grant's headquarters . He had very little respect for persons , and a rough style of conversation . I have heard him curse at Grant when , according to his judgment , the general was ...
... Vicksburg , wrote of him : " He bossed everything at Grant's headquarters . He had very little respect for persons , and a rough style of conversation . I have heard him curse at Grant when , according to his judgment , the general was ...
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