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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... land , furrowing , plowing corn and potatoes , bringing in the crops when harvested , hauling all the wood , besides tending two or three horses , a cow or two , and sawing wood for stoves , etc. , while still attending school ...
... land , furrowing , plowing corn and potatoes , bringing in the crops when harvested , hauling all the wood , besides tending two or three horses , a cow or two , and sawing wood for stoves , etc. , while still attending school ...
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... land of calloused hands , of lean and muscular men , of canvas - covered wagons with dry mud flaking from their wheels , of shotguns and hunting dogs , of silent women bending over the fires of cooking , with the smoke blowing in their ...
... land of calloused hands , of lean and muscular men , of canvas - covered wagons with dry mud flaking from their wheels , of shotguns and hunting dogs , of silent women bending over the fires of cooking , with the smoke blowing in their ...
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... lands and new careers stood on the horizon of the American race . The conquest of nature acquired a romanticism that is equaled only , in our day , by the golden aura which surrounds the gospel of commercial success . Yet , strong as ...
... lands and new careers stood on the horizon of the American race . The conquest of nature acquired a romanticism that is equaled only , in our day , by the golden aura which surrounds the gospel of commercial success . Yet , strong as ...
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... land of coppery suns and burning plains . War with Mexico is to be on the next page of American history and the page is turning . · The war between the United States and Mexico , if you look at it in one way , was a historical melodrama ...
... land of coppery suns and burning plains . War with Mexico is to be on the next page of American history and the page is turning . · The war between the United States and Mexico , if you look at it in one way , was a historical melodrama ...
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... land , but the separation of the seed and fiber would then require the work of twenty - five slaves for one hundred ... lands of the seacoast , where the chief crops were rice , indigo and tobacco . In the cultivation of these products ...
... land , but the separation of the seed and fiber would then require the work of twenty - five slaves for one hundred ... lands of the seacoast , where the chief crops were rice , indigo and tobacco . In the cultivation of these products ...
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