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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... Memoirs , but they were written fifty years later , when he had become one of the most distinguished men in the world , and the sorrows of youth had dissolved into the shining aureole of a great career . Besides , his Memoirs are ...
... Memoirs , but they were written fifty years later , when he had become one of the most distinguished men in the world , and the sorrows of youth had dissolved into the shining aureole of a great career . Besides , his Memoirs are ...
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... Memoirs , which he supposed the Century Company would publish as a book . Well , as a friend - and if it was not a private matter- Clemens said he would like to know what the Century pro- posed to pay him for the Memoirs . Grant was ...
... Memoirs , which he supposed the Century Company would publish as a book . Well , as a friend - and if it was not a private matter- Clemens said he would like to know what the Century pro- posed to pay him for the Memoirs . Grant was ...
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... Memoirs on February 21 , 1885 . The gnawing pain in his throat had been diagnosed as can- cer , and the news appeared in the daily papers . The uncertain physicians , doubtful of their own knowledge , came and went , while the General ...
... Memoirs on February 21 , 1885 . The gnawing pain in his throat had been diagnosed as can- cer , and the news appeared in the daily papers . The uncertain physicians , doubtful of their own knowledge , came and went , while the General ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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