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 85
... army are the unsuccessful ones . To be a success in this position an officer must be unobtrusive as well as efficient , like a butler in a well - ordered household . It was desperately hard work in Mexico in the month of August , 1846 ...
... army are the unsuccessful ones . To be a success in this position an officer must be unobtrusive as well as efficient , like a butler in a well - ordered household . It was desperately hard work in Mexico in the month of August , 1846 ...
Page 87
... army moved southward down the long axis of the land of Mexico . If the plan of campaign was to pierce the country sufficiently deep to take its capital , it was very fool- ishly conceived , for the distance from the Rio Grande to Mexico ...
... army moved southward down the long axis of the land of Mexico . If the plan of campaign was to pierce the country sufficiently deep to take its capital , it was very fool- ishly conceived , for the distance from the Rio Grande to Mexico ...
Page 89
... army had not been composed of such wretchedly poor human material . His soldiers were half - breed conscripts , driven to the army in gangs . They had no interest in the war , nor much conception of what it was about . With this rag - tag ...
... army had not been composed of such wretchedly poor human material . His soldiers were half - breed conscripts , driven to the army in gangs . They had no interest in the war , nor much conception of what it was about . With this rag - tag ...
Page 91
... army . The American expedition landed among the sand dunes of Vera Cruz with the bands blaring out " Yankee Doodle " as the troops floundered through the surf . The Mexican army , such as it was , stayed behind the walls of the town and ...
... army . The American expedition landed among the sand dunes of Vera Cruz with the bands blaring out " Yankee Doodle " as the troops floundered through the surf . The Mexican army , such as it was , stayed behind the walls of the town and ...
Page 92
... army was not crushed by weight of numbers because the people of the country were virtually serfs who hated the ruling classes even more than they disliked the Americans . The volunteers in the American army - and they composed the ...
... army was not crushed by weight of numbers because the people of the country were virtually serfs who hated the ruling classes even more than they disliked the Americans . The volunteers in the American army - and they composed the ...
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