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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We have here , then , an aggregate of 1,120,000 available ; but we should subtract a considerable percentage - say , thirty per cent — to allow for physical disability , and for detachment on services in civil life necessary for the ...
We have here , then , an aggregate of 1,120,000 available ; but we should subtract a considerable percentage - say , thirty per cent — to allow for physical disability , and for detachment on services in civil life necessary for the ...
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... without leaving their seats , put through another far - reaching anti - presidential measure called the Tenure of Office Act . This bill provided that “ every person holding any civil office to which he had been appointed by and ...
... without leaving their seats , put through another far - reaching anti - presidential measure called the Tenure of Office Act . This bill provided that “ every person holding any civil office to which he had been appointed by and ...
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Taxes were reduced ; money was stabilized , and a law for the resumption of specie payments was passed . He instituted a humane policy toward Sumner's Mathematics 449 the Indians . He attempted civil service ...
Taxes were reduced ; money was stabilized , and a law for the resumption of specie payments was passed . He instituted a humane policy toward Sumner's Mathematics 449 the Indians . He attempted civil service ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
GRANT FALLS IN LOVE | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | H. Liveright, 1928 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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