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 33
... Military Acad- emy at West Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First - rate , " the boy replied . What I have just quoted contains Jesse Grant's account of this occurrence , as he related it thirty years later ...
... Military Acad- emy at West Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First - rate , " the boy replied . What I have just quoted contains Jesse Grant's account of this occurrence , as he related it thirty years later ...
Page 36
... Military Academy . ) It was a splendid adventure . . . this strolling about the big towns , all alone with money in his pocket . Some of the city people must have stared at him as hard as he stared at them — at his healthy , freckled ...
... Military Academy . ) It was a splendid adventure . . . this strolling about the big towns , all alone with money in his pocket . Some of the city people must have stared at him as hard as he stared at them — at his healthy , freckled ...
Page 37
... military career . His mind moved always in the simplest geometrical patterns . All large problems became small ones in the distillation of his mental processes - small in the sense that he instinctively di- vested them of extraneous and ...
... military career . His mind moved always in the simplest geometrical patterns . All large problems became small ones in the distillation of his mental processes - small in the sense that he instinctively di- vested them of extraneous and ...
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... Military Academy showed their gray heads over the green summer of the river hills , he saw the gathering of his doom . " I had rather a dread of reaching my destination , " he wrote . $ 2 Gray - coated cadets loiter about the bulletin ...
... Military Academy showed their gray heads over the green summer of the river hills , he saw the gathering of his doom . " I had rather a dread of reaching my destination , " he wrote . $ 2 Gray - coated cadets loiter about the bulletin ...
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... military profession . The molding force of West Point had to struggle here with raw material that was not adapted to ... military career is a curious phenomenon . He never did become a soldier within the meaning that frames itself in our ...
... military profession . The molding force of West Point had to struggle here with raw material that was not adapted to ... military career is a curious phenomenon . He never did become a soldier within the meaning that frames itself in our ...
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