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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... tion of elegance evoked invidious backbiting comments . Even moderately well - to - do people were few , and the culture that follows wealth had not arrived at all . Behind Jesse Grant trailed a long American ancestry , sharply defined ...
... tion of elegance evoked invidious backbiting comments . Even moderately well - to - do people were few , and the culture that follows wealth had not arrived at all . Behind Jesse Grant trailed a long American ancestry , sharply defined ...
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... tion . " Trusting in God " was what the people of the commu- nity called her superb poise . There are other informative anecdotes of this kind . At the close of the Civil War , when the name of General Grant was like a word written in ...
... tion . " Trusting in God " was what the people of the commu- nity called her superb poise . There are other informative anecdotes of this kind . At the close of the Civil War , when the name of General Grant was like a word written in ...
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... tion of everything a pony can think of to get a man off his back . All to no avail ; Ulysses held fast and won the money . " Why , that pony is slick as an apple , " was his only comment , as - covered with dust and blushes - he backed ...
... tion of everything a pony can think of to get a man off his back . All to no avail ; Ulysses held fast and won the money . " Why , that pony is slick as an apple , " was his only comment , as - covered with dust and blushes - he backed ...
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... tion in an incident that occurred after the war , when the grateful American nation was loading Grant with gifts . Phila- delphia gave him a house ; New York gave him one hundred thousand dollars ; and Boston decided to make its present ...
... tion in an incident that occurred after the war , when the grateful American nation was loading Grant with gifts . Phila- delphia gave him a house ; New York gave him one hundred thousand dollars ; and Boston decided to make its present ...
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... tion at West Point . If he had been a ladies ' man he could have won the heart of any girl in the county ; but he did not try . As a soldier taking his ease he was a philosopher of the porticos rather than a Mark Antony of the poppy ...
... tion at West Point . If he had been a ladies ' man he could have won the heart of any girl in the county ; but he did not try . As a soldier taking his ease he was a philosopher of the porticos rather than a Mark Antony of the poppy ...
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