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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... land of calloused hands , of lean and muscular men , of canvas - covered wagons with dry mud flaking from their wheels , of shotguns and hunting dogs , of silent women bending over the fires of cooking , with the smoke blowing in their ...
... land of calloused hands , of lean and muscular men , of canvas - covered wagons with dry mud flaking from their wheels , of shotguns and hunting dogs , of silent women bending over the fires of cooking , with the smoke blowing in their ...
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... land scrip appeared miraculously in thousands of pockets . Charles and Mary Beard say , in their Rise of American Civili- zation : In New York City , for example , three land companies , organized to buy claims of doubtful validity ...
... land scrip appeared miraculously in thousands of pockets . Charles and Mary Beard say , in their Rise of American Civili- zation : In New York City , for example , three land companies , organized to buy claims of doubtful validity ...
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... land near St. Louis , and Grant's career as a Missouri farmer began . It was a rather discouraging start . He called his farm " Hardscrabble , " in anticipation of the hard times he expected to have there - and it must be said that he ...
... land near St. Louis , and Grant's career as a Missouri farmer began . It was a rather discouraging start . He called his farm " Hardscrabble , " in anticipation of the hard times he expected to have there - and it must be said that he ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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