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The country immediately adjacent to the City of Mexico consists chiefly of marshes which are spanned by causeways . These were easy to defend . It looked for a time as if the Molino Del Rey 95 place could not be taken without ...
The country immediately adjacent to the City of Mexico consists chiefly of marshes which are spanned by causeways . These were easy to defend . It looked for a time as if the Molino Del Rey 95 place could not be taken without ...
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For example , a gentleman might buy negroes from a slavetrader , or sell them to him , but the slave - trader himself was looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society .
For example , a gentleman might buy negroes from a slavetrader , or sell them to him , but the slave - trader himself was looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society .
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Standing in the valley , and looking up at these towering hills , one cannot help being astonished at the audacity ... The blue swarms of men climbing the slopes looked , in the distance , like animated dolls ; and the bursting shells ...
Standing in the valley , and looking up at these towering hills , one cannot help being astonished at the audacity ... The blue swarms of men climbing the slopes looked , in the distance , like animated dolls ; and the bursting shells ...
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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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