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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... turning back when he had once started anywhere . He would not retrace his steps , if he could avoid it , even in cases where a turning back would not make the slightest difference . When he lived in New York , after his two terms as ...
... turning back when he had once started anywhere . He would not retrace his steps , if he could avoid it , even in cases where a turning back would not make the slightest difference . When he lived in New York , after his two terms as ...
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... turning back , I would go on until a road was found turning in the right direction , take that , and come in by ... turned over and the hair is taken off in a some- what similar fashion . In the beam - room of Jesse Grant's tannery ...
... turning back , I would go on until a road was found turning in the right direction , take that , and come in by ... turned over and the hair is taken off in a some- what similar fashion . In the beam - room of Jesse Grant's tannery ...
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... turned out to be too strong . The Kentuckians tried to play the impossible rôle of neutrals . The eleven states that formed the Confederacy made up a solid block of territory that was enormous in size . From the Potomac river it ran ...
... turned out to be too strong . The Kentuckians tried to play the impossible rôle of neutrals . The eleven states that formed the Confederacy made up a solid block of territory that was enormous in size . From the Potomac river it ran ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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