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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... continued , one must know what happened to him at home and in school , for there is where his character is formed . That this is an excellent observation , of impeccable wisdom , every one will agree . But when he wrote his own ...
... continued , one must know what happened to him at home and in school , for there is where his character is formed . That this is an excellent observation , of impeccable wisdom , every one will agree . But when he wrote his own ...
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... " To many of them he seemed an obvious misfit . They kept him in the awkward squad for months , and after a time he succeeded in adjusting himself crudely to his environ- ment , though he continued for four years to be.
... " To many of them he seemed an obvious misfit . They kept him in the awkward squad for months , and after a time he succeeded in adjusting himself crudely to his environ- ment , though he continued for four years to be.
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William E. Woodward. ment , though he continued for four years to be something of a trial to the tactical officers . The fact is that he possessed absolutely no native talent for soldiering - and he did not like the military profession ...
William E. Woodward. ment , though he continued for four years to be something of a trial to the tactical officers . The fact is that he possessed absolutely no native talent for soldiering - and he did not like the military profession ...
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... continued to speak of " that tribe of Dents . " If absence makes the heart grow fonder , Ulysses Grant and Julia Dent must have grown fond , indeed , of each other , for they met but once in the four years that passed between their ...
... continued to speak of " that tribe of Dents . " If absence makes the heart grow fonder , Ulysses Grant and Julia Dent must have grown fond , indeed , of each other , for they met but once in the four years that passed between their ...
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... continued to the Pacific Ocean . That would have divided California into two parts , with the southern section a slave state . The irrepressible Wilmot prowls for a flickering instant among the Mexican débris . He is a man without a ...
... continued to the Pacific Ocean . That would have divided California into two parts , with the southern section a slave state . The irrepressible Wilmot prowls for a flickering instant among the Mexican débris . He is a man without a ...
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