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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... appearing on the stage as a weeping heroine , tearful and vociferous , with a shotgun concealed under her cloak . She appealed to the United States to rescue her from the Mexican dragon ; but long before her rescuer appeared she had ...
... appearing on the stage as a weeping heroine , tearful and vociferous , with a shotgun concealed under her cloak . She appealed to the United States to rescue her from the Mexican dragon ; but long before her rescuer appeared she had ...
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... appearance of Manifest Des- tiny in their midst . Nobody in the village had ever possessed more than five dollars in ... appeared as an actor for the first and only time in his career . He took a part in Shakespeare's Othello - not as ...
... appearance of Manifest Des- tiny in their midst . Nobody in the village had ever possessed more than five dollars in ... appeared as an actor for the first and only time in his career . He took a part in Shakespeare's Othello - not as ...
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... appeared to realize that he was beset by a pressing danger , and manifested by manner more than in words that he was relieved by my arrival . . . . Cer- tainly there was none of that masterly confidence which has since been assumed with ...
... appeared to realize that he was beset by a pressing danger , and manifested by manner more than in words that he was relieved by my arrival . . . . Cer- tainly there was none of that masterly confidence which has since been assumed with ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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