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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... wrote the names of their choice on slips of paper , folded up the slips , and drew one . It was Ulysses , the name that had been proposed by Grandmother Simpson . Evidently the outcome was not wholly satisfactory to the masculine part ...
... wrote the names of their choice on slips of paper , folded up the slips , and drew one . It was Ulysses , the name that had been proposed by Grandmother Simpson . Evidently the outcome was not wholly satisfactory to the masculine part ...
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... wrote pensively near the close of his life , " either while attending the school , or in later years when reflecting upon my ex- perience . " One day , after he had become famous , he remarked that he read but few lives of great men ...
... wrote pensively near the close of his life , " either while attending the school , or in later years when reflecting upon my ex- perience . " One day , after he had become famous , he remarked that he read but few lives of great men ...
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... wrote that laziness was " my besetting sin through life . ” This may be so ; but I cannot see where or when he man- aged to exercise his vice of indolence . Certainly his life in Georgetown was extraordinarily active . He wrote - I am ...
... wrote that laziness was " my besetting sin through life . ” This may be so ; but I cannot see where or when he man- aged to exercise his vice of indolence . Certainly his life in Georgetown was extraordinarily active . He wrote - I am ...
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... . Of this 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.
... . Of this 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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... wrote to the War Department that his choice for the vacancy at West Point was Ulysses . . . and there his pen paused . Ulysses must have a middle name , Hamer thought , and he wondered what it was . He had always heard him called ...
... wrote to the War Department that his choice for the vacancy at West Point was Ulysses . . . and there his pen paused . Ulysses must have a middle name , Hamer thought , and he wondered what it was . He had always heard him called ...
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