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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... matter ; he was seldom to be found at social gatherings , for horses occupied his interest almost to the point of obsession . Even as Even as a boy he was the best horseman in Georgetown . His understanding of horses had the easy ...
... matter ; he was seldom to be found at social gatherings , for horses occupied his interest almost to the point of obsession . Even as Even as a boy he was the best horseman in Georgetown . His understanding of horses had the easy ...
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... matter of truth , large numbers of men and women reach maturity without ever having been in love ; and it is not at all uncommon for people to go through their whole lives without either love or sexual experience . It is as certain as ...
... matter of truth , large numbers of men and women reach maturity without ever having been in love ; and it is not at all uncommon for people to go through their whole lives without either love or sexual experience . It is as certain as ...
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... matter - of - fact - ness . Among his contemporaries Lincoln was perhaps his most conspicuous antithesis in per- sonality . Grant was much closer to the soil than Lincoln , despite Lincoln's extreme lowness of origin and the poverty of ...
... matter - of - fact - ness . Among his contemporaries Lincoln was perhaps his most conspicuous antithesis in per- sonality . Grant was much closer to the soil than Lincoln , despite Lincoln's extreme lowness of origin and the poverty of ...
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... matter , I came to the conclusion that as a sports- man I was a failure , and went back to the house . He did not want to kill animals , though he had no objection whatever to the killing of men ; that is , to having them killed ...
... matter , I came to the conclusion that as a sports- man I was a failure , and went back to the house . He did not want to kill animals , though he had no objection whatever to the killing of men ; that is , to having them killed ...
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... matter . A few days after this episode he launched his swarm of men against the impregnable Confederate defenses at Cold Harbor . There they were shot down in a slaughter that has never had a parallel on this continent . Then for three ...
... matter . A few days after this episode he launched his swarm of men against the impregnable Confederate defenses at Cold Harbor . There they were shot down in a slaughter that has never had a parallel on this continent . Then for three ...
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