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 46
... believe that he took that paragraph out of his own head . There's a guide - book air about the far - famed Hudson- " its bosom studded with hundreds of snowy sails . " If a Man Graduates 47 Again , I look another 46 Meet General Grant.
... believe that he took that paragraph out of his own head . There's a guide - book air about the far - famed Hudson- " its bosom studded with hundreds of snowy sails . " If a Man Graduates 47 Again , I look another 46 Meet General Grant.
Page 53
... believe ) a captain at that time . Smith was a soldier of great ability . He had a pas- sionate liking for the science of war , and he knew as much about armies and soldiers as any American of that epoch could know . As commandant , he ...
... believe ) a captain at that time . Smith was a soldier of great ability . He had a pas- sionate liking for the science of war , and he knew as much about armies and soldiers as any American of that epoch could know . As commandant , he ...
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... believe that his bitter distaste for the military life started him in the drinking habit . We shall not understand his character at all unless we conceive him constantly as a pacifist . Yet his pacifism was chiefly Monterey 87 ...
... believe that his bitter distaste for the military life started him in the drinking habit . We shall not understand his character at all unless we conceive him constantly as a pacifist . Yet his pacifism was chiefly Monterey 87 ...
Page 138
... believe there grew up an aristocracy that possessed all the virtues , and most of the faults , of the ill - fated Bourbons . One feels quivering in the air the punctilio of rigid manners and the stately poise of a society that believes ...
... believe there grew up an aristocracy that possessed all the virtues , and most of the faults , of the ill - fated Bourbons . One feels quivering in the air the punctilio of rigid manners and the stately poise of a society that believes ...
Page 155
... believe anything , or suffer anything , if by so doing they may appear for awhile in a conspicuous rôle . His Into his half - insane mind there came an idea that he might instigate single - handed a slave rebellion that would put an end ...
... believe anything , or suffer anything , if by so doing they may appear for awhile in a conspicuous rôle . His Into his half - insane mind there came an idea that he might instigate single - handed a slave rebellion that would put an end ...
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