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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... hundred and fifty - six in order of conduct among a total number of two hundred and twenty - three cadets in the corps . An in- spection of the record shows that he was not vicious nor im- moral , but merely untidy . . . and lazy . A ...
... hundred and fifty - six in order of conduct among a total number of two hundred and twenty - three cadets in the corps . An in- spection of the record shows that he was not vicious nor im- moral , but merely untidy . . . and lazy . A ...
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... hundred dollars an article - but he said flatly that he was not a writer , and that he wanted to forget the Civil War , anyway . § 3 The end came with the explosive suddenness of an earth- quake . On Sunday , May 4 , 1884 , Ward ...
... hundred dollars an article - but he said flatly that he was not a writer , and that he wanted to forget the Civil War , anyway . § 3 The end came with the explosive suddenness of an earth- quake . On Sunday , May 4 , 1884 , Ward ...
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... hundred dollars each . Fifteen hundred dollars for the three ; it would help . The General wrote an article on the battle of Shiloh ; it ap- pears to - day in the Century war papers - a dry , informative story , in terse English , as ...
... hundred dollars each . Fifteen hundred dollars for the three ; it would help . The General wrote an article on the battle of Shiloh ; it ap- pears to - day in the Century war papers - a dry , informative story , in terse English , as ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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