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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... river , twenty - five miles east of Cincinnati . At that time the village dreamed of becoming a metropolis , and was filled with uneasy aspirations , which have long since dissolved into the past tense of hope . To - day it has a faint ...
... river , twenty - five miles east of Cincinnati . At that time the village dreamed of becoming a metropolis , and was filled with uneasy aspirations , which have long since dissolved into the past tense of hope . To - day it has a faint ...
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... - off days had some of the more restless aspects of a country fair . For twenty years settlers had poured into it like a river pouring across a broken dam . In Ohio When It Was New 19 the year 1800 the 18 Meet General Grant.
... - off days had some of the more restless aspects of a country fair . For twenty years settlers had poured into it like a river pouring across a broken dam . In Ohio When It Was New 19 the year 1800 the 18 Meet General Grant.
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... river , ten miles away . He was engaged in that , at times , before he had reached the age of eleven . And he drove a team forty miles to Cincinnati , carrying a load of rags which he sold for fifteen dollars . A more adven- turous ...
... river , ten miles away . He was engaged in that , at times , before he had reached the age of eleven . And he drove a team forty miles to Cincinnati , carrying a load of rags which he sold for fifteen dollars . A more adven- turous ...
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... river trader , or get an education . ” Jesse thought that he might be able to procure an ap- pointment as a cadet in the United States Military Acad- emy at West Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First ...
... river trader , or get an education . ” Jesse thought that he might be able to procure an ap- pointment as a cadet in the United States Military Acad- emy at West Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First ...
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... river hills , he saw the gathering of his doom . " I had rather a dread of reaching my destination , " he wrote . $ 2 Gray - coated cadets loiter about the bulletin board at the door of the Academy guardroom . Slim young fellows , their ...
... river hills , he saw the gathering of his doom . " I had rather a dread of reaching my destination , " he wrote . $ 2 Gray - coated cadets loiter about the bulletin board at the door of the Academy guardroom . Slim young fellows , their ...
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