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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... fact that it contained only two rooms and was of the dry - goods - box type of architecture , without porch , veranda or trimmings . In one room Hannah Grant cooked The Mother of Ulysses 13 her husband's meals at a 12 Meet General Grant.
... fact that it contained only two rooms and was of the dry - goods - box type of architecture , without porch , veranda or trimmings . In one room Hannah Grant cooked The Mother of Ulysses 13 her husband's meals at a 12 Meet General Grant.
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... fact that Hannah Grant was a pious Methodist . Her religious faith was so profound that it carried her to the verge ... facts . That she was a good wife , a woman of piety and virtue , a person of common sense , with curious lapses into ...
... fact that Hannah Grant was a pious Methodist . Her religious faith was so profound that it carried her to the verge ... facts . That she was a good wife , a woman of piety and virtue , a person of common sense , with curious lapses into ...
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... facts by quibbles of sophistry - gave a reputation for shrewdness to its perpetrator that sometimes carried him to the legislature , or to Congress . Almost every young man wanted to be a lawyer , regardless of his literacy or natural ...
... facts by quibbles of sophistry - gave a reputation for shrewdness to its perpetrator that sometimes carried him to the legislature , or to Congress . Almost every young man wanted to be a lawyer , regardless of his literacy or natural ...
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... fact a discerning mind , familiar with psychological inversions , may see the repercussion of his ineffective contact with people . His life , like the life of every one else , was a continuous search for power in some form . Among ...
... fact a discerning mind , familiar with psychological inversions , may see the repercussion of his ineffective contact with people . His life , like the life of every one else , was a continuous search for power in some form . Among ...
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... fact that he was such poor company . He was bashful , and inept at the fluent jesting that passes for wit among boys and girls . Among the boys of Georgetown at that time it was the con- ventional thing to be a successful swearer ...
... fact that he was such poor company . He was bashful , and inept at the fluent jesting that passes for wit among boys and girls . Among the boys of Georgetown at that time it was the con- ventional thing to be a successful swearer ...
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