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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... sense , with curious lapses into indifference and self - absorption , is all we know of her . In the first year of her marriage , on April 27 , 1822 , her son Ulysses was born . For six weeks he was without a name . $ 2 Ulysses purrs on ...
... sense , with curious lapses into indifference and self - absorption , is all we know of her . In the first year of her marriage , on April 27 , 1822 , her son Ulysses was born . For six weeks he was without a name . $ 2 Ulysses purrs on ...
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... sense of muscular strength . No doubt it was hoped by the hard - handed tree - choppers of the family that Ulysses would fade into the obscurity of an anonymous middle initial . Futile hope . Children are known by the name their mother ...
... sense of muscular strength . No doubt it was hoped by the hard - handed tree - choppers of the family that Ulysses would fade into the obscurity of an anonymous middle initial . Futile hope . Children are known by the name their mother ...
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... sense of physical modesty was most unusual - for a man and a soldier - and , in other respects , he was something of a prude . During the Civil War he would take his bath in his tent with the flaps carefully closed and pinned . While ...
... sense of physical modesty was most unusual - for a man and a soldier - and , in other respects , he was something of a prude . During the Civil War he would take his bath in his tent with the flaps carefully closed and pinned . While ...
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... sense of values . The images of men and events did not fall primarily on his mind , but on the retina of his soul . He had the gift of feeling his way through life . Nevertheless , he was neither emotional nor sentimental , for he ...
... sense of values . The images of men and events did not fall primarily on his mind , but on the retina of his soul . He had the gift of feeling his way through life . Nevertheless , he was neither emotional nor sentimental , for he ...
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... sense of power that was of such vital necessity to him . Somehow during his early childhood he had acquired an extraordinary inhibition against turning back when he had once started anywhere . He would not retrace his steps , if he ...
... sense of power that was of such vital necessity to him . Somehow during his early childhood he had acquired an extraordinary inhibition against turning back when he had once started anywhere . He would not retrace his steps , if he ...
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