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 17
... says practically nothing about his youthful desires and feelings , nor does he mention the name of even one companion or playmate . So far as the record in his personal Memoirs goes he might have been brought up in a childless desert ...
... says practically nothing about his youthful desires and feelings , nor does he mention the name of even one companion or playmate . So far as the record in his personal Memoirs goes he might have been brought up in a childless desert ...
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... say - but no matter ; he was seldom to be found at social gatherings , for horses occupied his interest almost to the point of obsession . Even as Even as a boy he was the best horseman in Georgetown . His understanding of horses had ...
... say - but no matter ; he was seldom to be found at social gatherings , for horses occupied his interest almost to the point of obsession . Even as Even as a boy he was the best horseman in Georgetown . His understanding of horses had ...
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... says in his Memoirs : Each officer carried a shot - gun , and every evening , after going into camp , some would go out and soon return with venison and wild turkeys enough for the entire camp . I , however , never went out , and had no ...
... says in his Memoirs : Each officer carried a shot - gun , and every evening , after going into camp , some would go out and soon return with venison and wild turkeys enough for the entire camp . I , however , never went out , and had no ...
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... says that in the outburst which followed he realized for the first time that Grant had a temper . It is too bad , for history's sake , that he does not state exactly what his commander's words were , but he does say that there was a ...
... says that in the outburst which followed he realized for the first time that Grant had a temper . It is too bad , for history's sake , that he does not state exactly what his commander's words were , but he does say that there was a ...
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... says in the Memoirs : " I was not studious in habit , and probably did not make progress enough to com- pensate for the outlay for board and tuition . " He was , in truth , a vegetative youth , growing up like a stolid oak . Stolid on ...
... says in the Memoirs : " I was not studious in habit , and probably did not make progress enough to com- pensate for the outlay for board and tuition . " He was , in truth , a vegetative youth , growing up like a stolid oak . Stolid on ...
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