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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... close of the day the switches were usually worn out . These beatings do not appear to have caused any rancor in the heart of Ulysses ; or he may have had a tough skin . " I never had any hard feelings against my teacher , " he wrote ...
... close of the day the switches were usually worn out . These beatings do not appear to have caused any rancor in the heart of Ulysses ; or he may have had a tough skin . " I never had any hard feelings against my teacher , " he wrote ...
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... close at hand would take him away from the tannery altogether . One of these was the hauling of passengers from Georgetown to the steamboat landing on the Ohio river , ten miles away . He was engaged in that , at times , before he had ...
... close at hand would take him away from the tannery altogether . One of these was the hauling of passengers from Georgetown to the steamboat landing on the Ohio river , ten miles away . He was engaged in that , at times , before he had ...
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... close that one thinks of it as a kind of mystic fatalism . He married a Southern woman ; a Louisiana general - Zachary Taylor - was his mili- tary ideal ; and he became one of the shining stars of American history through the rebellion ...
... close that one thinks of it as a kind of mystic fatalism . He married a Southern woman ; a Louisiana general - Zachary Taylor - was his mili- tary ideal ; and he became one of the shining stars of American history through the rebellion ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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