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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... campaign he was heard several times to say , " Confound it ! " and " Doggone it ! " But at that time he was forty - two years old . In the rasping judgment of an average boy - community such a restrained youth is generally considered a ...
... campaign he was heard several times to say , " Confound it ! " and " Doggone it ! " But at that time he was forty - two years old . In the rasping judgment of an average boy - community such a restrained youth is generally considered a ...
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... campaign , says that Grant lost his temper only once during those trying months . One day the general and his staff were riding along a Virginia road in the route of the marching columns , when they came upon a teamster who was beating ...
... campaign , says that Grant lost his temper only once during those trying months . One day the general and his staff were riding along a Virginia road in the route of the marching columns , when they came upon a teamster who was beating ...
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... campaigns , said : " All his military greatness came of the plainest possible qualities , developed to an astound- ing degree . " When such men are correct in their conclusions — that is , when they have the weight of public opinion and ...
... campaigns , said : " All his military greatness came of the plainest possible qualities , developed to an astound- ing degree . " When such men are correct in their conclusions — that is , when they have the weight of public opinion and ...
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... campaign as a problem in strategy , but to Grant a campaign was a problem in mechanics . There is a profound difference in these two conceptions , which I hope to make plain when we come to the operations of the Civil War . § 3 Grant ...
... campaign as a problem in strategy , but to Grant a campaign was a problem in mechanics . There is a profound difference in these two conceptions , which I hope to make plain when we come to the operations of the Civil War . § 3 Grant ...
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... campaigns of Napoleon or Frederick the Great . John A. Rawlins , who knew Grant more intimately than any other man ever knew him , says that he had never read a book on strategy . There is confirmatory evidence of the truth of this ...
... campaigns of Napoleon or Frederick the Great . John A. Rawlins , who knew Grant more intimately than any other man ever knew him , says that he had never read a book on strategy . There is confirmatory evidence of the truth of this ...
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