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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Page 15
... knew how to scrape the bloody lumps of flesh from the ill- smelling skins , how to prepare the bark of trees for tanning solutions , how to steep the hides in vats , how to beat the skins into hard or soft leather . To get on in ...
... knew how to scrape the bloody lumps of flesh from the ill- smelling skins , how to prepare the bark of trees for tanning solutions , how to steep the hides in vats , how to beat the skins into hard or soft leather . To get on in ...
Page 34
... knew his constituency , and he remem- bered that Jesse Grant had married Hannah Simpson . The boy's middle name must be Simpson , so the hovering pen de- scended and wrote Ulysses Simpson Grant . In this manner did the insignificant Mr ...
... knew his constituency , and he remem- bered that Jesse Grant had married Hannah Simpson . The boy's middle name must be Simpson , so the hovering pen de- scended and wrote Ulysses Simpson Grant . In this manner did the insignificant Mr ...
Page 37
... knew a better method . He would , then and there , assume the name of Ulysses Simpson , and be done with it . His gesture of straight - line directness in this inconsequential incident is characteristic of his entire military career ...
... knew a better method . He would , then and there , assume the name of Ulysses Simpson , and be done with it . His gesture of straight - line directness in this inconsequential incident is characteristic of his entire military career ...
Page 39
... knew him as Sam . To those who attended the shrine of Mars he seemed a very unmilitary figure , not only on his first day , but for many months thereafter . His shoulders had a noticeable stoop- the result of his back - bending labor as ...
... knew him as Sam . To those who attended the shrine of Mars he seemed a very unmilitary figure , not only on his first day , but for many months thereafter . His shoulders had a noticeable stoop- the result of his back - bending labor as ...
Page 45
... knew him well . Ingalls wrote long afterwards - at the time of the Civil War - that Grant took small interest in his studies , that he seldom read over a lesson more than once , and that he spent his time largely in idleness or in ...
... knew him well . Ingalls wrote long afterwards - at the time of the Civil War - that Grant took small interest in his studies , that he seldom read over a lesson more than once , and that he spent his time largely in idleness or in ...
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