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 94
... looked down on the glittering white city of the Montezumas . They stood where Cortez and his fighting crew of Spaniards had stood more than three hundred years before . There is not a place in the world better situated for defense . The ...
... looked down on the glittering white city of the Montezumas . They stood where Cortez and his fighting crew of Spaniards had stood more than three hundred years before . There is not a place in the world better situated for defense . The ...
Page 139
... looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile was looked at for a brief instant - and then it was led back to the closet ...
... looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile was looked at for a brief instant - and then it was led back to the closet ...
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... looked so promising that Colonel Frederick Grant , the General's eldest son , resigned from the army and came into the firm , bringing some of his wife's fortune . Ward looked closely after the General . Every morning he would put ...
... looked so promising that Colonel Frederick Grant , the General's eldest son , resigned from the army and came into the firm , bringing some of his wife's fortune . Ward looked closely after the General . Every morning he would put ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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