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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... forces , and they were beaten in detail , and everywhere . Jefferson Davis was a cautious man , fearful of defeat ... force of Confederates . And at Fort Donelson , Grant's army , smaller than that of the Confederates at the beginning ...
... forces , and they were beaten in detail , and everywhere . Jefferson Davis was a cautious man , fearful of defeat ... force of Confederates . And at Fort Donelson , Grant's army , smaller than that of the Confederates at the beginning ...
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... force not required by the operations of General Grant's command shall be raised , an expedition may be organized , under General McClernand's command , against Vicksburg . · · • 99 McClernand's instructions were secret , and were to be ...
... force not required by the operations of General Grant's command shall be raised , an expedition may be organized , under General McClernand's command , against Vicksburg . · · • 99 McClernand's instructions were secret , and were to be ...
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... force of the blow , but we must find consolation in the consciousness that · it is the cruelest and meanest act of injustice , and the hope , if there is any sense of wrong or justice in the country , that the man who perpetrated it ...
... force of the blow , but we must find consolation in the consciousness that · it is the cruelest and meanest act of injustice , and the hope , if there is any sense of wrong or justice in the country , that the man who perpetrated it ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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