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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... officers of his regi- ment . His sense of physical modesty was most unusual - for a man and a soldier - and , in other respects , he was something of a prude . During the Civil War he would take his bath in his tent with the flaps ...
... officers of his regi- ment . His sense of physical modesty was most unusual - for a man and a soldier - and , in other respects , he was something of a prude . During the Civil War he would take his bath in his tent with the flaps ...
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... officers . The fact is that he possessed absolutely no native talent for soldiering - and he did not like the military profession . The molding force of West Point had to struggle here with raw material that was not adapted to its ...
... officers . The fact is that he possessed absolutely no native talent for soldiering - and he did not like the military profession . The molding force of West Point had to struggle here with raw material that was not adapted to its ...
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... officer . . . . .. Any cadet who shall , by any means whatever , traduce or defame another , shall be dismissed . " And there is Rule 129 , with its wide - spreading implications : " The cadets are not only required to abstain from all ...
... officer . . . . .. Any cadet who shall , by any means whatever , traduce or defame another , shall be dismissed . " And there is Rule 129 , with its wide - spreading implications : " The cadets are not only required to abstain from all ...
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... officers , and these are so few in number that a special education in mathematics might be provided for them without forcing every infantry officer to flounder through Descartes and Newton . It is true , indeed , that mathematics is the ...
... officers , and these are so few in number that a special education in mathematics might be provided for them without forcing every infantry officer to flounder through Descartes and Newton . It is true , indeed , that mathematics is the ...
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... officer before , and did not quite know the difference between a lieutenant and a general . The rural imagination played in fantastic conceptions around his dazzling uniform , the heroic traditions of the army , and the immense learning ...
... officer before , and did not quite know the difference between a lieutenant and a general . The rural imagination played in fantastic conceptions around his dazzling uniform , the heroic traditions of the army , and the immense learning ...
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