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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... passed into history before Congress became involved in another financial affair called the Back Pay Grab . This particular grab was different from the other grabs of the epoch in that it was open and above board . On the last day of the ...
... passed into history before Congress became involved in another financial affair called the Back Pay Grab . This particular grab was different from the other grabs of the epoch in that it was open and above board . On the last day of the ...
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... passed in May , 1870 , an Enforcement Act , which was designed to make the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment effective . Later on another section of the Enforcement Act came into being . As it applied directly to the Ku - Klux outrages ...
... passed in May , 1870 , an Enforcement Act , which was designed to make the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment effective . Later on another section of the Enforcement Act came into being . As it applied directly to the Ku - Klux outrages ...
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... passed first into a large ante - chamber where the Prince of Wales was playing with his two boys - one of whom is now King George V. The other guests had not come . The Prince came forward , shook hands with the General , met Mrs. Grant ...
... passed first into a large ante - chamber where the Prince of Wales was playing with his two boys - one of whom is now King George V. The other guests had not come . The Prince came forward , shook hands with the General , met Mrs. Grant ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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