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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... seems in the biographies of great generals , is really nothing less than bad manners when acquired by any one under the age of fifty . But Jesse Grant was grim and had a purpose at the age of twenty - five . His purpose was to make ...
... seems in the biographies of great generals , is really nothing less than bad manners when acquired by any one under the age of fifty . But Jesse Grant was grim and had a purpose at the age of twenty - five . His purpose was to make ...
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... seems , but Jesse and his wife had the tough vitality of youth ; and besides , the hardest winter would pass in time , and then the bare forest , quivering with new life , would dress itself in shimmering green . In the woods there was ...
... seems , but Jesse and his wife had the tough vitality of youth ; and besides , the hardest winter would pass in time , and then the bare forest , quivering with new life , would dress itself in shimmering green . In the woods there was ...
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... seem trivial , but they are indicative of a character which is not disturbed by physical encounters , and in which self - reliance and coolness are leading qualities . Notwithstanding these achievements he gradually acquired the ...
... seem trivial , but they are indicative of a character which is not disturbed by physical encounters , and in which self - reliance and coolness are leading qualities . Notwithstanding these achievements he gradually acquired the ...
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... seems not to have cared much for his mother , nor she for him ; but I do not know why . His life was not a normal village boy's life , though most of his biographers have assumed that it was , on evidence which will not stand the most ...
... seems not to have cared much for his mother , nor she for him ; but I do not know why . His life was not a normal village boy's life , though most of his biographers have assumed that it was , on evidence which will not stand the most ...
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... seems , to the golden heart of romance . $ 2 The fixed center of Grant's objective character was a highly developed matter - of - fact - ness . Among his contemporaries Lincoln was perhaps his most conspicuous antithesis in per ...
... seems , to the golden heart of romance . $ 2 The fixed center of Grant's objective character was a highly developed matter - of - fact - ness . Among his contemporaries Lincoln was perhaps his most conspicuous antithesis in per ...
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