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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Page 115
... talks about it all day . He had horses to talk about , and the doings at the post , and his reminiscences of the Mexican War . Yet if we are to place him at all , at this period of his life , we must include him among the Democrats . He ...
... talks about it all day . He had horses to talk about , and the doings at the post , and his reminiscences of the Mexican War . Yet if we are to place him at all , at this period of his life , we must include him among the Democrats . He ...
Page 374
... talk , and Congressmen sit hunched up over the knotty problems of political metaphysics like a group of medieval ... talks of wholesale suicide , and one gets an unpleasant impression that there are dead bodies lying around the house ...
... talk , and Congressmen sit hunched up over the knotty problems of political metaphysics like a group of medieval ... talks of wholesale suicide , and one gets an unpleasant impression that there are dead bodies lying around the house ...
Page 412
... talk in a parlor ; nothing special was said . But Grant was going to a Peace Jubilee in Boston in June - this was in ... talking with a statesman . Men of poise and balance who have laid aside their business preoccupations to survey ...
... talk in a parlor ; nothing special was said . But Grant was going to a Peace Jubilee in Boston in June - this was in ... talking with a statesman . Men of poise and balance who have laid aside their business preoccupations to survey ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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