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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... fight - the one at Resaca de la Palma -he wrote : The fight was a pel Mel The Capparel is so dense Here they made a stand . affair evry body for himself . that you may be within five feet of a person and not know it . Our troops rushed ...
... fight - the one at Resaca de la Palma -he wrote : The fight was a pel Mel The Capparel is so dense Here they made a stand . affair evry body for himself . that you may be within five feet of a person and not know it . Our troops rushed ...
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... fight for slavery and independence . . . and man is such a fighting animal by nature , that many thousands of these men , who had nothing whatever to gain by the war , did fight heroically for the Confederacy for four years . There was ...
... fight for slavery and independence . . . and man is such a fighting animal by nature , that many thousands of these men , who had nothing whatever to gain by the war , did fight heroically for the Confederacy for four years . There was ...
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... fighting . I . • · propose on this line if it takes all summer . " to fight it out We have observed that Grant had an instinct for slogans and catchy phrases . " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer " became as ...
... fighting . I . • · propose on this line if it takes all summer . " to fight it out We have observed that Grant had an instinct for slogans and catchy phrases . " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer " became as ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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