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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... military profession . The molding force of West Point had to struggle here with raw material that was not adapted to ... military career is a curious phenomenon . He never did become a soldier within the meaning that frames itself in our ...
... military profession . The molding force of West Point had to struggle here with raw material that was not adapted to ... military career is a curious phenomenon . He never did become a soldier within the meaning that frames itself in our ...
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... military treatises were in the great general's library , so as to avoid duplication . Thus the donors learned , to their astonishment , that he did not own a military book of any kind . And he says himself : Some of our generals failed ...
... military treatises were in the great general's library , so as to avoid duplication . Thus the donors learned , to their astonishment , that he did not own a military book of any kind . And he says himself : Some of our generals failed ...
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... military com- missions right and left to men who knew nothing whatever about army organization . These untrained officers got in the habit of coming to Grant and asking him what to do . He became a sort of military encyclopedia in the ...
... military com- missions right and left to men who knew nothing whatever about army organization . These untrained officers got in the habit of coming to Grant and asking him what to do . He became a sort of military encyclopedia in the ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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