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 16
... looked upon by the people of Georgetown as a capable and disagreeable person . His Sunday coat appeared on his back every day , and he wore gold - rimmed eye - glasses . Ulysses was a slender boy , small for his age , but possessed of ...
... looked upon by the people of Georgetown as a capable and disagreeable person . His Sunday coat appeared on his back every day , and he wore gold - rimmed eye - glasses . Ulysses was a slender boy , small for his age , but possessed of ...
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... looked instinctively to the dim twilight regions of the human spirit for his sense of values . The images of men and events did not fall primarily on his mind , but on the retina of his soul . He had the gift of feeling his way through ...
... looked instinctively to the dim twilight regions of the human spirit for his sense of values . The images of men and events did not fall primarily on his mind , but on the retina of his soul . He had the gift of feeling his way through ...
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... 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 when we come to the operations of the ...
... 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 when we come to the operations of the ...
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... ground for snobbery , that it was an inefficient school and a waste of money . Grant said that he looked at the newspapers every day , hoping to read that the bill had passed , and that the Academy was to go out of existence . He.
... ground for snobbery , that it was an inefficient school and a waste of money . Grant said that he looked at the newspapers every day , hoping to read that the bill had passed , and that the Academy was to go out of existence . He.
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... an ideal char- acter , problems that would have looked well on a black- board , practical facts were neglected . To that extent I consider remembrances of old campaigns a disadvantage . § 5 I have never been able to discover any.
... an ideal char- acter , problems that would have looked well on a black- board , practical facts were neglected . To that extent I consider remembrances of old campaigns a disadvantage . § 5 I have never been able to discover any.
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