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 115
... talks about it all day . He had horses to talk about , and the doings at the post , and his reminiscences of the Mexican War . Yet if we are to place him at all , at this period of his life , we must include him among the Democrats . He ...
... talks about it all day . He had horses to talk about , and the doings at the post , and his reminiscences of the Mexican War . Yet if we are to place him at all , at this period of his life , we must include him among the Democrats . He ...
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William E. Woodward. Sherman Talks 357 buzzing in their heads . Dreams of festivals , sacrifices and flowing blood . How ... talk is in order . So Sherman and Johnston talked in a farmhouse while the two war - bitten armies sat down and ...
William E. Woodward. Sherman Talks 357 buzzing in their heads . Dreams of festivals , sacrifices and flowing blood . How ... talk is in order . So Sherman and Johnston talked in a farmhouse while the two war - bitten armies sat down and ...
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... talk things over with Grant and had written him : " You and I don't meet ; it might be better if we did . We are more con- servative than the young men who run the business . I under- stand these notes which I have just discounted are ...
... talk things over with Grant and had written him : " You and I don't meet ; it might be better if we did . We are more con- servative than the young men who run the business . I under- stand these notes which I have just discounted are ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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