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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Page 33
... West Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First - rate , " the boy replied . What I have just quoted contains Jesse Grant's account of this occurrence , as he related it thirty years later . It does not agree ...
... West Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First - rate , " the boy replied . What I have just quoted contains Jesse Grant's account of this occurrence , as he related it thirty years later . It does not agree ...
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... West Point -this time to another " Institute " at Ripley , which is only ten miles from Georgetown . His career there was as blank as it was at Maysville . He says in the Memoirs : " I was not studious in habit , and probably did not ...
... West Point -this time to another " Institute " at Ripley , which is only ten miles from Georgetown . His career there was as blank as it was at Maysville . He says in the Memoirs : " I was not studious in habit , and probably did not ...
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... west bank of the Mississippi . If it were only possible to get below Vicksburg and come up from the south - on the east bank - the great problem of getting there would be solved . From the south the place was readily accessible , over ...
... west bank of the Mississippi . If it were only possible to get below Vicksburg and come up from the south - on the east bank - the great problem of getting there would be solved . From the south the place was readily accessible , over ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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