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 45
... a breeding 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 .
... a breeding 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 .
Page 106
... newspaper and on every tongue , his former landlord accidentally discovered " U. S. Grant " scratched with a diamond ring on a pane of glass in the cot- tage and he recalled then that the national hero had been one of his tenants ...
... newspaper and on every tongue , his former landlord accidentally discovered " U. S. Grant " scratched with a diamond ring on a pane of glass in the cot- tage and he recalled then that the national hero had been one of his tenants ...
Page 115
... newspaper and , devouring its contents , talks about it all day . He had horses to talk about , and the doings at the post , and his reminiscences of the Mexican War . Yet if we are to place him at all , at this period of his life , we ...
... newspaper and , devouring its contents , talks about it all day . He had horses to talk about , and the doings at the post , and his reminiscences of the Mexican War . Yet if we are to place him at all , at this period of his life , we ...
Page 127
... newspaper , The Liberator , Garrison car- ried this blazing dictum : " No Union with slaveholders . The United States Constitution is a covenant with death , and an agreement with hell . ” Garrison is one of the strangest figures in ...
... newspaper , The Liberator , Garrison car- ried this blazing dictum : " No Union with slaveholders . The United States Constitution is a covenant with death , and an agreement with hell . ” Garrison is one of the strangest figures in ...
Page 128
... newspaper hurt business in Boston ; it an- noyed the Southern trade . In his early years every effort short of murder was made to suppress him . His office was raided ; his presses were destroyed ; he was dragged through the streets of ...
... newspaper hurt business in Boston ; it an- noyed the Southern trade . In his early years every effort short of murder was made to suppress him . His office was raided ; his presses were destroyed ; he was dragged through the streets of ...
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