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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... standing at West Point . It was the only subject in which he was really interested , and the only one in which his standing was good . At the close of the first year he ranked forty - ninth in French in a class of sixty members , but in ...
... standing at West Point . It was the only subject in which he was really interested , and the only one in which his standing was good . At the close of the first year he ranked forty - ninth in French in a class of sixty members , but in ...
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... stand still . To remain where he was would be simply playing into the enemy's hands . Lee would have liked nothing better than to have kept the Union army in a state of inert catalepsy before his Cold Harbor trenches for an indefinite ...
... stand still . To remain where he was would be simply playing into the enemy's hands . Lee would have liked nothing better than to have kept the Union army in a state of inert catalepsy before his Cold Harbor trenches for an indefinite ...
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... stand in front of his house . I do not know why they stood there ; the habit of standing in front of houses is a pro- found mystery that has never been explained . The news- papers said that the General's admirers loitered about his ...
... stand in front of his house . I do not know why they stood there ; the habit of standing in front of houses is a pro- found mystery that has never been explained . The news- papers said that the General's admirers loitered about his ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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