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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... idea of what a President's birthplace ought to be . It is true that it was not a log - house , but this minor defect was remedied perhaps by the fact that it contained only two rooms and was of the dry - goods - box type of architecture ...
... idea of what a President's birthplace ought to be . It is true that it was not a log - house , but this minor defect was remedied perhaps by the fact that it contained only two rooms and was of the dry - goods - box type of architecture ...
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... idea , and he set up a tanning establishment of his own in Georgetown . He hired men and profited by their labor . With a shrewd and calculating eye he bought raw skins at a low price from befuddled yokels and sold leather at a high ...
... idea , and he set up a tanning establishment of his own in Georgetown . He hired men and profited by their labor . With a shrewd and calculating eye he bought raw skins at a low price from befuddled yokels and sold leather at a high ...
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... ideas he was pugnacious and opinionated to the last degree . He carried pamphlets in his pockets and argued about politics with his customers , usually convincing them that they were wrong . That was a very poor thing for a business man ...
... ideas he was pugnacious and opinionated to the last degree . He carried pamphlets in his pockets and argued about politics with his customers , usually convincing them that they were wrong . That was a very poor thing for a business man ...
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... ideas or for village - store arguments . He had to work too hard ; much harder indeed than any child ought to work , at tasks which were beyond his strength . But this conception of his boyhood does not appear in his Memoirs , and I do ...
... ideas or for village - store arguments . He had to work too hard ; much harder indeed than any child ought to work , at tasks which were beyond his strength . But this conception of his boyhood does not appear in his Memoirs , and I do ...
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... idea occurred to him . He had heard that blind horses are not likely to run away , so he took out his handkerchief and tied it across the horse's eyes . Thus blind- folded , the unbroken horse became a slow - paced Dobbin and was driven ...
... idea occurred to him . He had heard that blind horses are not likely to run away , so he took out his handkerchief and tied it across the horse's eyes . Thus blind- folded , the unbroken horse became a slow - paced Dobbin and was driven ...
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