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 35
... railroad collision , or any other accident happen , by which I might have received a temporary injury sufficient to make me ineligible , for a time , to enter the Academy . Nothing of the kind occurred , and I had to face the music ...
... railroad collision , or any other accident happen , by which I might have received a temporary injury sufficient to make me ineligible , for a time , to enter the Academy . Nothing of the kind occurred , and I had to face the music ...
Page 100
... railroads , to augment the size of manufacturing establishments , to acquire mortgages , to control labor , and to manipulate the prices of farm products . It led to a prosperity that was temporary and fictitious , for though the ...
... railroads , to augment the size of manufacturing establishments , to acquire mortgages , to control labor , and to manipulate the prices of farm products . It led to a prosperity that was temporary and fictitious , for though the ...
Page 109
... railroads , which meant cheap and quick transportation , and a prodigious widening of mar- kets . Factories grew larger , and the factory system expanded towards the West . This flow of dynamic energy hardly touched the South . The ...
... railroads , which meant cheap and quick transportation , and a prodigious widening of mar- kets . Factories grew larger , and the factory system expanded towards the West . This flow of dynamic energy hardly touched the South . The ...
Page 113
... Railroad . " These activities — one must understand - were illegal , even in the free states , as they were in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 , passed by Congress in Washington's time . The efforts to recapture slaves and ...
... Railroad . " These activities — one must understand - were illegal , even in the free states , as they were in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 , passed by Congress in Washington's time . The efforts to recapture slaves and ...
Page 121
... railroad fare to get to his father's home in Ohio . In this seedy condition he went to see Captain Simon B. Buck- ner , a classmate , who was stationed in New York , on recruiting service . Captain Buckner advanced the money for his ex ...
... railroad fare to get to his father's home in Ohio . In this seedy condition he went to see Captain Simon B. Buck- ner , a classmate , who was stationed in New York , on recruiting service . Captain Buckner advanced the money for his ex ...
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