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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... fight — the one at Resaca de la Palma -he wrote : Here they made a stand . The fight was a pel Mel affair evry body for himself . The Capparel is so dense that you may be within five feet of a person and not know it . Our troops rushed ...
... fight — the one at Resaca de la Palma -he wrote : Here they made a stand . The fight was a pel Mel affair evry body for himself . The Capparel is so dense that you may be within five feet of a person and not know it . Our troops rushed ...
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... fight for such a cloudy abstrac- tion ? Could the uncouth Lincoln drag a whole nation into war on such a flimsy pretext ? In this , as in all wars , most of the actual fighting was done by poor people who had nothing at stake and who ...
... fight for such a cloudy abstrac- tion ? Could the uncouth Lincoln drag a whole nation into war on such a flimsy pretext ? In this , as in all wars , most of the actual fighting was done by poor people who had nothing at stake and who ...
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William E. Woodward. X Grant Fights expli 321 that , despite his heavy losses , Grant had as many men at the * end of ... fight Grant in the Wilderness , where the Confederate officers knew the ground , and where Grant's superiority in ...
William E. Woodward. X Grant Fights expli 321 that , despite his heavy losses , Grant had as many men at the * end of ... fight Grant in the Wilderness , where the Confederate officers knew the ground , and where Grant's superiority in ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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