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 15
... moved , when he was about one year old , to Georgetown in the next county . Jesse Root Grant went at the task of dressing hides as cheerfully as if he were carving a piece of ivory . His esthetic sense was a negligible quantity , and he ...
... moved , when he was about one year old , to Georgetown in the next county . Jesse Root Grant went at the task of dressing hides as cheerfully as if he were carving a piece of ivory . His esthetic sense was a negligible quantity , and he ...
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... move on to a better place or to be in such a position of financial independence within a few years that he could build himself a really fine house . Coarse and heavy - handed as these people were , their coming was nevertheless not a ...
... move on to a better place or to be in such a position of financial independence within a few years that he could build himself a really fine house . Coarse and heavy - handed as these people were , their coming was nevertheless not a ...
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... moving toward its dawn . It was not long before every little backwoods county had its flock of lawyers who served to carry on the interminable disputes which gave raciness to life in communities afflicted with a congenital boredom . The ...
... moving toward its dawn . It was not long before every little backwoods county had its flock of lawyers who served to carry on the interminable disputes which gave raciness to life in communities afflicted with a congenital boredom . The ...
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... 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 unnecessary complications ...
... 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 unnecessary complications ...
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... . This insignificant strip of land was made the pretext for war . The conflict was begun by American troops moving into the Nueces region and occupying it . CHAPTER VI GRANT THE PACIFIST § 1 RANT'S regiment went 74 Meet General Grant.
... . This insignificant strip of land was made the pretext for war . The conflict was begun by American troops moving into the Nueces region and occupying it . CHAPTER VI GRANT THE PACIFIST § 1 RANT'S regiment went 74 Meet General Grant.
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