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 74
... miles north of the Rio Grande . The Mexicans claimed that the southern border of Texas was the Nueces , while the Texans declared that their territory extended to the Rio Grande . This insignificant strip of land was made the pretext ...
... miles north of the Rio Grande . The Mexicans claimed that the southern border of Texas was the Nueces , while the Texans declared that their territory extended to the Rio Grande . This insignificant strip of land was made the pretext ...
Page 80
... miles north of the Rio Grande . was afraid that the Mexicans would cross the river in force and seize his supplies on the coast , so he left a few men in the fort and marched the larger part of his army to Point Isabel for the purpose ...
... miles north of the Rio Grande . was afraid that the Mexicans would cross the river in force and seize his supplies on the coast , so he left a few men in the fort and marched the larger part of his army to Point Isabel for the purpose ...
Page 81
... miles farther south . Taylor's column pursued them , and defeated them again the next day . Grant wrote a long letter home immediately afterward . was a hurried epistle , full of misspelled words . During the days fight I scarsely ...
... miles farther south . Taylor's column pursued them , and defeated them again the next day . Grant wrote a long letter home immediately afterward . was a hurried epistle , full of misspelled words . During the days fight I scarsely ...
Page 82
... miles apart in mental quality . Davis was a logician —a keen and brilliant sophist . In his mind everything was kept bright and shining , and in its proper place , like the tools in a neat carpenter's chest . Taylor , on the other hand ...
... miles apart in mental quality . Davis was a logician —a keen and brilliant sophist . In his mind everything was kept bright and shining , and in its proper place , like the tools in a neat carpenter's chest . Taylor , on the other hand ...
Page 87
... miles . But it appears that the Polk administration did not really contemplate any such complicated operations . It was be- lieved by the President and his advisers that if Mexico were invaded from the north the Mexicans would quit ...
... miles . But it appears that the Polk administration did not really contemplate any such complicated operations . It was be- lieved by the President and his advisers that if Mexico were invaded from the north the Mexicans would quit ...
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