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 57
... Young Dent himself was not sta- tioned at the Barracks , but he arranged things so that his family invited young Lieutenant Grant to the Dent home . Through making this simple gesture of politeness toward his classmate Frederick Dent ...
... Young Dent himself was not sta- tioned at the Barracks , but he arranged things so that his family invited young Lieutenant Grant to the Dent home . Through making this simple gesture of politeness toward his classmate Frederick Dent ...
Page 111
... young Jefferson Davis , maintained that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery anywhere , under any circum- stances ; that slaves were a species of property and that slave- owning had all the time - honored rights that surround and ...
... young Jefferson Davis , maintained that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery anywhere , under any circum- stances ; that slaves were a species of property and that slave- owning had all the time - honored rights that surround and ...
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... young girls , chaperoned by the wives of generals , fluttered through the cabins . They burst in on Meade , and had him bowing and scraping and asking anxiously for his young men : " Colonel Lyman , where are all my young men ? " he ...
... young girls , chaperoned by the wives of generals , fluttered through the cabins . They burst in on Meade , and had him bowing and scraping and asking anxiously for his young men : " Colonel Lyman , where are all my young men ? " he ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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