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 128
... wanted to abolish the slave system . Garrison and his friends could never exchange ideas with the advocates of slavery because the opposing sides lived on different planes of existence , and neither of them knew what the other was ...
... wanted to abolish the slave system . Garrison and his friends could never exchange ideas with the advocates of slavery because the opposing sides lived on different planes of existence , and neither of them knew what the other was ...
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... wanted Fish to send Motley a cablegram , telling him to get out of the embassy forthwith . Fish said that such a procedure would not be dignified , but Grant wanted it done , anyway . It was not done ; Fish finally persuaded him to let ...
... wanted Fish to send Motley a cablegram , telling him to get out of the embassy forthwith . Fish said that such a procedure would not be dignified , but Grant wanted it done , anyway . It was not done ; Fish finally persuaded him to let ...
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... wanted to play a star part in the financial world , yet he had absolutely no capacity for commercial or financial operations . But he thought he had — and his delusion was not as strange as it seems . It is common among men who have had ...
... wanted to play a star part in the financial world , yet he had absolutely no capacity for commercial or financial operations . But he thought he had — and his delusion was not as strange as it seems . It is common among men who have had ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant Meet General Grant, William E. Woodward Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | H. Liveright, 1928 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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