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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... paper money , and at someone's suggestion he shaved off his beard and sat for a profile photograph . The Treasury Department finally decided not to use this picture . Meserve Collection . From the William WE WOODWARD MEET GENERAL GRANT ...
... paper money , and at someone's suggestion he shaved off his beard and sat for a profile photograph . The Treasury Department finally decided not to use this picture . Meserve Collection . From the William WE WOODWARD MEET GENERAL GRANT ...
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... paper , folded up the slips , and drew one . It was Ulysses , the name that had been proposed by Grandmother Simpson . Evidently the outcome was not wholly satisfactory to the masculine part of the family . Somebody who was there suc ...
... paper , folded up the slips , and drew one . It was Ulysses , the name that had been proposed by Grandmother Simpson . Evidently the outcome was not wholly satisfactory to the masculine part of the family . Somebody who was there suc ...
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... paper and wrote to the War Department that his choice for the vacancy at West Point was Ulysses . . . and there his pen paused . Ulysses must have a middle name , Hamer thought , and he wondered what it was . He had always heard him ...
... paper and wrote to the War Department that his choice for the vacancy at West Point was Ulysses . . . and there his pen paused . Ulysses must have a middle name , Hamer thought , and he wondered what it was . He had always heard him ...
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... papers would have to go back to Washington to have the name changed to Ulysses Hiram . However , the papers did not go back . Grant knew a better method . He would , then and there , assume the name of Ulysses Simpson , and be done with ...
... papers would have to go back to Washington to have the name changed to Ulysses Hiram . However , the papers did not go back . Grant knew a better method . He would , then and there , assume the name of Ulysses Simpson , and be done with ...
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... not been the least homesick . I would not go home on any account whatever . Poor homesick boy ! Writing bravely of the delights of West Point to keep up his courage and scanning the news- • papers in the hope that Congress has put an end.
... not been the least homesick . I would not go home on any account whatever . Poor homesick boy ! Writing bravely of the delights of West Point to keep up his courage and scanning the news- • papers in the hope that Congress has put an end.
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