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If there had been a possibility of success the army would have fought its way through , but how can men march for miles along a a winding mountain road that is swept from one end to the other by cannon fire ? At the further end there ...
If there had been a possibility of success the army would have fought its way through , but how can men march for miles along a a winding mountain road that is swept from one end to the other by cannon fire ? At the further end there ...
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When it was once there he set it up again and opened fire on the Mexican troops inside the city . The fire from the steeple was so damaging to the enemy that General Worth sent for Grant to compliment him on its effectiveness .
When it was once there he set it up again and opened fire on the Mexican troops inside the city . The fire from the steeple was so damaging to the enemy that General Worth sent for Grant to compliment him on its effectiveness .
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It was impossible to cook food , to make coffee , to light a fire , in such a driving storm . Grant and his staff spent the night in a ramshackle farm - house , lying on the floor . But if Grant's army was in bad shape , that of the ...
It was impossible to cook food , to make coffee , to light a fire , in such a driving storm . Grant and his staff spent the night in a ramshackle farm - house , lying on the floor . But if Grant's army was in bad shape , that of the ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Meet General Grant |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2006 |
| ISBN | 1404749136, 9781404749139 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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