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 43
... seems merely chaotic and unprecise and incomprehensible . His impulse is to turn back to his own military circle and steep himself in its ideals . At West Point one may witness this cloister type of mind being formed and fertilized . As ...
... seems merely chaotic and unprecise and incomprehensible . His impulse is to turn back to his own military circle and steep himself in its ideals . At West Point one may witness this cloister type of mind being formed and fertilized . As ...
Page 47
... seems placed there on purpose to tell us of the glorious deeds of our fathers , and to bid us to remember their sufferings - to follow their example . Here is the house Washington used to live in - there Kosiuscko used to walk and think ...
... seems placed there on purpose to tell us of the glorious deeds of our fathers , and to bid us to remember their sufferings - to follow their example . Here is the house Washington used to live in - there Kosiuscko used to walk and think ...
Page 49
... seems to have been made toward the production of drillmasters instead of generals . It is certain that Grant was never familiar with any of the classic campaigns of Napoleon or Frederick the Great . John A. Rawlins , who knew Grant more ...
... seems to have been made toward the production of drillmasters instead of generals . It is certain that Grant was never familiar with any of the classic campaigns of Napoleon or Frederick the Great . John A. Rawlins , who knew Grant more ...
Page 50
... seems better , from the standpoint of common sense , to do away with everything in mathematics higher than arith- metic in an officer's education , and devote the time thus saved to such important subjects as the relative nutritive ...
... seems better , from the standpoint of common sense , to do away with everything in mathematics higher than arith- metic in an officer's education , and devote the time thus saved to such important subjects as the relative nutritive ...
Page 60
... seem to have been considered by him as a sort of duty which comes up in a man's life . Very likely he felt relieved when it was settled . He could then check that performance off his list , and never bother about it again . Colonel Dent ...
... seem to have been considered by him as a sort of duty which comes up in a man's life . Very likely he felt relieved when it was settled . He could then check that performance off his list , and never bother about it again . Colonel Dent ...
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