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 13
... months of snow , lay in a crystalline sea of sunshine . The warm odors of the reviving earth drifted through the open doors and windows . Along the road came wagons creaking heavily , with dusty horses and sleepy drivers . Hannah Grant ...
... months of snow , lay in a crystalline sea of sunshine . The warm odors of the reviving earth drifted through the open doors and windows . Along the road came wagons creaking heavily , with dusty horses and sleepy drivers . Hannah Grant ...
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... months in a year , scat- tered knowledge to his pupils as one scatters crumbs to sparrows . The crumbs were poor in quality and few in num- ber , but this meant nothing to Ulysses , whose intellectual hunger was easily satisfied . The ...
... months in a year , scat- tered knowledge to his pupils as one scatters crumbs to sparrows . The crumbs were poor in quality and few in num- ber , but this meant nothing to Ulysses , whose intellectual hunger was easily satisfied . The ...
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... months . One day the general and his staff were riding along a Virginia road in the route of the marching columns , when they came upon a teamster who was beating his horses in the face . Porter says that in the outburst which followed ...
... months . One day the general and his staff were riding along a Virginia road in the route of the marching columns , when they came upon a teamster who was beating his horses in the face . Porter says that in the outburst which followed ...
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... months thereafter . His shoulders had a noticeable stoop- the result of his back - bending labor as a child ; and he walked with the high - stepping clomp - clomp of a farmer on newly plowed ground . One of his fellow - cadets ...
... months thereafter . His shoulders had a noticeable stoop- the result of his back - bending labor as a child ; and he walked with the high - stepping clomp - clomp of a farmer on newly plowed ground . One of his fellow - cadets ...
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... months , and have not seen a single familiar face or spoken to a single lady . I wish some of the pretty girls of Bethel were here , just so I might look at them . But fudge ! Confound the girls . I have seen great men , plenty of them ...
... months , and have not seen a single familiar face or spoken to a single lady . I wish some of the pretty girls of Bethel were here , just so I might look at them . But fudge ! Confound the girls . I have seen great men , plenty of them ...
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