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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... standing at West Point . It was the only subject in which he was really interested , and the only one in which his standing was good . At the close of the first year he ranked forty - ninth in French in a class of sixty members , but in ...
... standing at West Point . It was the only subject in which he was really interested , and the only one in which his standing was good . At the close of the first year he ranked forty - ninth in French in a class of sixty members , but in ...
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... stands on a bluff two hundred feet high on the east bank of the Mississippi . Before the town the huge river bends ... standing on Vicks- burg hill can see across land and water to a.
... stands on a bluff two hundred feet high on the east bank of the Mississippi . Before the town the huge river bends ... standing on Vicks- burg hill can see across land and water to a.
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... Stand fast , stand firm , stand sure'- seems as fitting to ancient heroes of the name as to Ulysses with his proposition to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer . " The prevailing tradition among the descendants of General ...
... Stand fast , stand firm , stand sure'- seems as fitting to ancient heroes of the name as to Ulysses with his proposition to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer . " The prevailing tradition among the descendants of General ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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