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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... BECOMES PRESIDENT XXVII . ADVENTURES IN HIGH FINANCE XXVIII . THE RECONSTRUCTED SOUTH XXIX . DIPLOMATIC EPISODES XXX . THE TRIP AROUND THE WORLD XXXI . THE TRAGEDY OF GRANT & WARD . XXXII . THE HOUSE OF PAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX • • PAGE ...
... BECOMES PRESIDENT XXVII . ADVENTURES IN HIGH FINANCE XXVIII . THE RECONSTRUCTED SOUTH XXIX . DIPLOMATIC EPISODES XXX . THE TRIP AROUND THE WORLD XXXI . THE TRAGEDY OF GRANT & WARD . XXXII . THE HOUSE OF PAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX • • PAGE ...
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... becomes grim and purposeful too early in life . Grimness , as admirable as it seems in the biographies of great generals , is really nothing less than bad manners when acquired by any one under the age of fifty . But Jesse Grant was ...
... becomes grim and purposeful too early in life . Grimness , as admirable as it seems in the biographies of great generals , is really nothing less than bad manners when acquired by any one under the age of fifty . But Jesse Grant was ...
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... becoming a metropolis , and was filled with uneasy aspirations , which have long since dissolved into the past tense of hope . To - day it has a faint air of melancholy , and sits by its majestic river like a disappointed elderly man on ...
... becoming a metropolis , and was filled with uneasy aspirations , which have long since dissolved into the past tense of hope . To - day it has a faint air of melancholy , and sits by its majestic river like a disappointed elderly man on ...
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... become a great man , haven't you ? " With that remark she returned to her household duties . Out of these reservations emerges the fact that Hannah Grant was a pious Methodist . Her religious faith was so profound that it carried her to ...
... become a great man , haven't you ? " With that remark she returned to her household duties . Out of these reservations emerges the fact that Hannah Grant was a pious Methodist . Her religious faith was so profound that it carried her to ...
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... become a business . Here we have the elements of financial success . Jesse Grant might have become the Leather King of Ohio or something else equally admirable if it had not been for his disputatious cocksureness on all subjects . In ...
... become a business . Here we have the elements of financial success . Jesse Grant might have become the Leather King of Ohio or something else equally admirable if it had not been for his disputatious cocksureness on all subjects . In ...
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