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 32
... talk of the beam - room . However , he found to his joy that other enterprises lying close at hand would take him away from the tannery altogether . One of these was the hauling of passengers from Georgetown to the steamboat landing on ...
... talk of the beam - room . However , he found to his joy that other enterprises lying close at hand would take him away from the tannery altogether . One of these was the hauling of passengers from Georgetown to the steamboat landing on ...
Page 41
... talks about hair - cutting and tonsorial appear- ances . One learns that " cadets shall have their hair trimmed close , except from the crown to the forehead , which shall be neatly trimmed and dressed . Mustaches shall not be worn ...
... talks about hair - cutting and tonsorial appear- ances . One learns that " cadets shall have their hair trimmed close , except from the crown to the forehead , which shall be neatly trimmed and dressed . Mustaches shall not be worn ...
Page 56
... talking of small things and playing the trumpery games that are bred in idleness . Grant's mind was full of intentions and hopes . From his stopping place in Ohio he had written to the head of the mathematical department at West Point ...
... talking of small things and playing the trumpery games that are bred in idleness . Grant's mind was full of intentions and hopes . From his stopping place in Ohio he had written to the head of the mathematical department at West Point ...
Page 58
... talking probably about everything except what was on their minds . She at- tended some dances at the Barracks , where the wallflower Ulysses stood watching her lithe form go swinging around the room in other men's arms . He tried to ...
... talking probably about everything except what was on their minds . She at- tended some dances at the Barracks , where the wallflower Ulysses stood watching her lithe form go swinging around the room in other men's arms . He tried to ...
Page 68
... talk of disunion , of secession , of forming two nations — and in these secession projects the North was not in the least behind the South . Up to the beginning of the Civil War a large and influential body of opinion in every part of ...
... talk of disunion , of secession , of forming two nations — and in these secession projects the North was not in the least behind the South . Up to the beginning of the Civil War a large and influential body of opinion in every part of ...
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