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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... thousand dollars , was chartered to the government for four months for sixty thou- sand dollars . The Salvor , a captured blockade - runner , sold by the government at auction , was purchased by Clyde , of Philadelphia , for twelve thousand ...
... thousand dollars , was chartered to the government for four months for sixty thou- sand dollars . The Salvor , a captured blockade - runner , sold by the government at auction , was purchased by Clyde , of Philadelphia , for twelve thousand ...
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... thousand dollars a year in Galena , but he wanted to live in New York , where five thousand dollars , even at that time , did not go very far . But something was being done by his friends . George W. Jones , proprietor of the New York ...
... thousand dollars a year in Galena , but he wanted to live in New York , where five thousand dollars , even at that time , did not go very far . But something was being done by his friends . George W. Jones , proprietor of the New York ...
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... thousand dollars . " Buck " had already invested one hundred thousand - prob- ably his father - in - law's money - and it was decided that the General should put in a hundred thousand more . Ward agreed to take two hundred thousand ...
... thousand dollars . " Buck " had already invested one hundred thousand - prob- ably his father - in - law's money - and it was decided that the General should put in a hundred thousand more . Ward agreed to take two hundred thousand ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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