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... Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First - rate , " the boy replied . What I have just quoted contains Jesse Grant's account of this occurrence , as he related it thirty years later . It does not agree in all ...
... Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First - rate , " the boy replied . What I have just quoted contains Jesse Grant's account of this occurrence , as he related it thirty years later . It does not agree in all ...
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... Point he would pass through two large cities , and would have a chance to see them . Writing of this in his day of reminiscence , he said : " Going to West Point would give me the opportunity of visiting the two great cities of the ...
... Point he would pass through two large cities , and would have a chance to see them . Writing of this in his day of reminiscence , he said : " Going to West Point would give me the opportunity of visiting the two great cities of the ...
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... point of beginning hostilities , but without success until April , 1846. In March Taylor was ordered to advance across the Nueces strip to the Rio Grande . Corpus Christi was abandoned , and the army marched southward over ground ...
... point of beginning hostilities , but without success until April , 1846. In March Taylor was ordered to advance across the Nueces strip to the Rio Grande . Corpus Christi was abandoned , and the army marched southward over ground ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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