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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... army officer before , and did not quite know the difference between a lieutenant and a general . The rural imagination played in fantastic conceptions around his dazzling uniform , the heroic traditions of the army , and the immense ...
... army officer before , and did not quite know the difference between a lieutenant and a general . The rural imagination played in fantastic conceptions around his dazzling uniform , the heroic traditions of the army , and the immense ...
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... Army of Observation . " A better name , although it would not have been so soothing to national hypocrisy , would have been the " Army of Provocation , " for its purpose was to goad Mexico into a conflict . Every one from commander down ...
... Army of Observation . " A better name , although it would not have been so soothing to national hypocrisy , would have been the " Army of Provocation , " for its purpose was to goad Mexico into a conflict . Every one from commander down ...
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... army thirty - five years ago and have been in two wars , in Mexico as a young lieutenant , and later , I never went into the army without regret and never retired without pleasure . At Versailles the French government conducted him ...
... army thirty - five years ago and have been in two wars , in Mexico as a young lieutenant , and later , I never went into the army without regret and never retired without pleasure . At Versailles the French government conducted him ...
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... army marched southward over ground claimed by Mexico . On the Rio Grande , opposite the Mexican town of Matamoras , the Americans built a fort . They were within a few hundred yards of the Mexican army ; things began to look warlike ...
... army marched southward over ground claimed by Mexico . On the Rio Grande , opposite the Mexican town of Matamoras , the Americans built a fort . They were within a few hundred yards of the Mexican army ; things began to look warlike ...
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William E. Woodward. 84 Now the American army , increased by a horde of disorderly volunteers , pours out of Matamoras and ... army's flanks and shoot down stragglers . CHAPTER VII THE ROAD TO MEXICO § 1 IEUTENANT GRANT 84 Meet General Grant.
William E. Woodward. 84 Now the American army , increased by a horde of disorderly volunteers , pours out of Matamoras and ... army's flanks and shoot down stragglers . CHAPTER VII THE ROAD TO MEXICO § 1 IEUTENANT GRANT 84 Meet General Grant.
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