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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... thing to be a successful swearer ; profanity stood even higher than obscenity in the juvenile scale of excellence . Ulysses never swore and was not in the least obscene . To the end of his life he did not like to listen to off - color ...
... thing to be a successful swearer ; profanity stood even higher than obscenity in the juvenile scale of excellence . Ulysses never swore and was not in the least obscene . To the end of his life he did not like to listen to off - color ...
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... characteristic he wrote : One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere , or do anything , not to turn back , or A Superstition 31 stop until the thing intended was accomplished 30 Meet General Grant.
... characteristic he wrote : One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere , or do anything , not to turn back , or A Superstition 31 stop until the thing intended was accomplished 30 Meet General Grant.
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William E. Woodward. A Superstition 31 stop until the thing intended was accomplished . I have frequently started to go to places where I had never been and to which I did not know the way , depending upon making inquiries on the road ...
William E. Woodward. A Superstition 31 stop until the thing intended was accomplished . I have frequently started to go to places where I had never been and to which I did not know the way , depending upon making inquiries on the road ...
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... Thing . Sitting at Washington in the seats of the mighty and thinking of his Ohio district and the next election , he saw a politician's chance to stop the mouth of at least one rabid opponent . So his reply was gracious enough . He ...
... Thing . Sitting at Washington in the seats of the mighty and thinking of his Ohio district and the next election , he saw a politician's chance to stop the mouth of at least one rabid opponent . So his reply was gracious enough . He ...
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... things there are in the world . In wistful remembrance he thought , too , of the rough fields and the sinewy horses of the Ohio country that he had left behind him . There was more than a tinge of melancholy in his reflections , for the ...
... things there are in the world . In wistful remembrance he thought , too , of the rough fields and the sinewy horses of the Ohio country that he had left behind him . There was more than a tinge of melancholy in his reflections , for the ...
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