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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... until 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.
... until 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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... up nearer to him and began to make inviting gestures . He was almost grown up , in his six- teenth year ; and it was time for him to walk in his father's footsteps . Hears of West Point 33 One day his father said 32 Meet General Grant.
... up nearer to him and began to make inviting gestures . He was almost grown up , in his six- teenth year ; and it was time for him to walk in his father's footsteps . Hears of West Point 33 One day his father said 32 Meet General Grant.
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... 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 was Ulysses . . . and there his pen paused . Ulysses must have a middle name , Hamer thought , and he wondered what it was . He had always heard him called Ulysses or " Useless . " But this Congressman knew his constituency ...
... West Point was Ulysses . . . and there his pen paused . Ulysses must have a middle name , Hamer thought , and he wondered what it was . He had always heard him called Ulysses or " Useless . " But this Congressman knew his constituency ...
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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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