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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At the close of the first year he ranked forty - ninth in French in a class of sixty members , but in mathematics he stood sixteenth . In the second year he held the tenth place in mathematics among the fifty - three men remaining in ...
At the close of the first year he ranked forty - ninth in French in a class of sixty members , but in mathematics he stood sixteenth . In the second year he held the tenth place in mathematics among the fifty - three men remaining in ...
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A church with a broad , square steeple stood just outside the walls of the city . Grant borrowed a howitzer from an artillery unit , and , with the aid of a few soldiers , succeeded in getting it up the stone stairs and into the steeple ...
A church with a broad , square steeple stood just outside the walls of the city . Grant borrowed a howitzer from an artillery unit , and , with the aid of a few soldiers , succeeded in getting it up the stone stairs and into the steeple ...
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369 tee of presentation , in tall black hats and frock coats , stood smiling while Grant went through the rooms and looked at the plush furniture , the heavy chairs , the gilt clock , the photograph of Lincoln , the ornate Bible on the ...
369 tee of presentation , in tall black hats and frock coats , stood smiling while Grant went through the rooms and looked at the plush furniture , the heavy chairs , the gilt clock , the photograph of Lincoln , the ornate Bible on the ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
GRANT FALLS IN LOVE | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | H. Liveright, 1928 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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