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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... carried to extremes . He was not very well liked by his neighbors . By trade he was a tanner , a humble occupation which would have given him a fairly low social status in a wealthy or long- settled community , but not at Point Pleasant ...
... carried to extremes . He was not very well liked by his neighbors . By trade he was a tanner , a humble occupation which would have given him a fairly low social status in a wealthy or long- settled community , but not at Point Pleasant ...
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... carried her to the verge of an incalculable mysticism . If she had in truth a lifelong secret , locked closely in her bosom , it was perhaps the secret of her unity with God . In an older civilization she might have willingly passed her ...
... carried her to the verge of an incalculable mysticism . If she had in truth a lifelong secret , locked closely in her bosom , it was perhaps the secret of her unity with God . In an older civilization she might have willingly passed her ...
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... 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 of an anonymous middle initial . Futile hope . Children are known by the name ...
... 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 of an anonymous middle initial . Futile hope . Children are known by the name ...
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... carried pamphlets in his pockets and argued about politics with his customers , usually convincing them that they were wrong . That was a very poor thing for a business man to do . But there were not many tanneries , and much leather ...
... carried pamphlets in his pockets and argued about politics with his customers , usually convincing them that they were wrong . That was a very poor thing for a business man to do . But there were not many tanneries , and much leather ...
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... carry on the interminable disputes which gave raciness to life in communities afflicted with a congenital boredom ... carried him to the legislature , or to Congress . Almost every young man wanted to be a lawyer , regardless of his ...
... carry on the interminable disputes which gave raciness to life in communities afflicted with a congenital boredom ... carried him to the legislature , or to Congress . Almost every young man wanted to be a lawyer , regardless of his ...
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