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 220
... whole Confederate garrison could have escaped . But now Floyd's asininity comes to the front . He thought that the whole of Grant's army was in retreat , and he sent silly pæans of triumph by telegraph to Richmond and Nashville . In ...
... whole Confederate garrison could have escaped . But now Floyd's asininity comes to the front . He thought that the whole of Grant's army was in retreat , and he sent silly pæans of triumph by telegraph to Richmond and Nashville . In ...
Page 435
... whole were tried and convicted under the Ku - Klux Act . Ten years later the Su- preme Court declared it to be unconstitutional . Grant was bewildered by these complications and unavailing measures , yet his bewilderment did not appear ...
... whole were tried and convicted under the Ku - Klux Act . Ten years later the Su- preme Court declared it to be unconstitutional . Grant was bewildered by these complications and unavailing measures , yet his bewilderment did not appear ...
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... whole public are tired out with these annual au- tumnal outbreaks in the South , and the great majority are ready now to condemn any interference on the part of the government . The Reconstruction program fell into disfavor in the North ...
... whole public are tired out with these annual au- tumnal outbreaks in the South , and the great majority are ready now to condemn any interference on the part of the government . The Reconstruction program fell into disfavor in the North ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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