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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... give her name and the date of her marriage to his father . Rear - Admiral Ammen was reared in Georgetown and went to Professor White's school with Grant . This honest old sea- dog lived to an advanced age and died amid the murmur of ...
... give her name and the date of her marriage to his father . Rear - Admiral Ammen was reared in Georgetown and went to Professor White's school with Grant . This honest old sea- dog lived to an advanced age and died amid the murmur of ...
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... give , and in the beginning of the winter of 1836 when the boy was fourteen - he was sent to the Seminary at Maysville , Kentucky , across the river and about twenty miles distant from Georgetown . He attended the Maysville school only ...
... give , and in the beginning of the winter of 1836 when the boy was fourteen - he was sent to the Seminary at Maysville , Kentucky , across the river and about twenty miles distant from Georgetown . He attended the Maysville school only ...
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... give the appointment to Ulysses . • Then he picked up another sheet of paper and wrote to the War Department that his choice for the vacancy at West Point was Ulysses . . . and there his pen paused . Ulysses must have a middle name ...
... give the appointment to Ulysses . • Then he picked up another sheet of paper and wrote to the War Department that his choice for the vacancy at West Point was Ulysses . . . and there his pen paused . Ulysses must have a middle name ...
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... give me the opportunity of visiting the two great cities of the continent , Philadelphia and New York . This was enough . When these places were visited I would have been glad to have had a steamboat or railroad collision , or any other ...
... give me the opportunity of visiting the two great cities of the continent , Philadelphia and New York . This was enough . When these places were visited I would have been glad to have had a steamboat or railroad collision , or any other ...
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... gives to the study of Einstein . They looked upon a military campaign as a problem in strategy , but to Grant a campaign was a problem in mechanics . There is a profound difference in these two conceptions , which I hope to make plain ...
... gives to the study of Einstein . They looked upon a military campaign as a problem in strategy , but to Grant a campaign was a problem in mechanics . There is a profound difference in these two conceptions , which I hope to make plain ...
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