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 14
... called her superb poise . There are other informative anecdotes of this kind . At the close of the Civil War , when the name of General Grant was like a word written in the skies , to be seen by all men , Ulysses came back to his ...
... called her superb poise . There are other informative anecdotes of this kind . At the close of the Civil War , when the name of General Grant was like a word written in the skies , to be seen by all men , Ulysses came back to his ...
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... called Hiram Ulysses Grant . A virile name is Hiram , devoid of sweetness , and carrying a sense of muscular strength . No doubt it was hoped by the hard - handed tree - choppers of the family that Ulysses would fade into the obscurity ...
... called Hiram Ulysses Grant . A virile name is Hiram , devoid of sweetness , and carrying a sense of muscular strength . No doubt it was hoped by the hard - handed tree - choppers of the family that Ulysses would fade into the obscurity ...
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... called because the parents of the scholars subscribed various sums for the support of the teacher . In this school a Professor John D. White , for three months in a year , scat- tered knowledge to his pupils as one scatters crumbs to ...
... called because the parents of the scholars subscribed various sums for the support of the teacher . In this school a Professor John D. White , for three months in a year , scat- tered knowledge to his pupils as one scatters crumbs to ...
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... called him " Useless " Grant . This remained his nickname 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 ...
... called him " Useless " Grant . This remained his nickname 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 ...
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... called the " Little Beauty " by the officers of his regi- ment . His sense of physical modesty was most unusual - for a man and a soldier - and , in other respects , he was something of a prude . During the Civil War he would take his ...
... called the " Little Beauty " by the officers of his regi- ment . His sense of physical modesty was most unusual - for a man and a soldier - and , in other respects , he was something of a prude . During the Civil War he would take his ...
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