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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... 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 father's cottage for a brief visit . His mother appeared , in her working apron , her ...
... 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 father's cottage for a brief visit . His mother appeared , in her working apron , her ...
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... close of the day the switches were usually worn out . These beatings do not appear to have caused any rancor in the heart of Ulysses ; or he may have had a tough skin . “ I never had any hard feelings against my teacher , " he wrote ...
... close of the day the switches were usually worn out . These beatings do not appear to have caused any rancor in the heart of Ulysses ; or he may have had a tough skin . “ I never had any hard feelings against my teacher , " he wrote ...
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... 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 , according to the evidence , and most of his days.
... 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 , according to the evidence , and most of his days.
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... close as he ever got in those early days , so it seems , to the golden heart of romance . $ 2 The fixed center of Grant's objective character was a highly developed matter - of - fact - ness . Among his contemporaries Lincoln was ...
... close as he ever got in those early days , so it seems , to the golden heart of romance . $ 2 The fixed center of Grant's objective character was a highly developed matter - of - fact - ness . Among his contemporaries Lincoln was ...
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... close to breaking through his taboo . One of these occasions was during the Mexican War , when his regiment was stationed in Texas . He says in his Memoirs : Each officer carried a shot - gun , and every evening , after going into camp ...
... close to breaking through his taboo . One of these occasions was during the Mexican War , when his regiment was stationed in Texas . He says in his Memoirs : Each officer carried a shot - gun , and every evening , after going into camp ...
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