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 35
... thought that on his way to West 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 ...
... thought that on his way to West 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 ...
Page 38
... thought , too , of the rough fields and the sinewy horses of the Ohio country that he had left behind him . There was more than a tinge of melancholy in his reflections , for the good Lord had not granted him the merciful salvation of a ...
... thought , too , of the rough fields and the sinewy horses of the Ohio country that he had left behind him . There was more than a tinge of melancholy in his reflections , for the good Lord had not granted him the merciful salvation of a ...
Page 39
... thought him " coun- trified . " To many of them he seemed an obvious misfit . They kept him in the awkward squad for months , and after a time he succeeded in adjusting himself crudely to his environ- ment , though he continued for four ...
... thought him " coun- trified . " To many of them he seemed an obvious misfit . They kept him in the awkward squad for months , and after a time he succeeded in adjusting himself crudely to his environ- ment , though he continued for four ...
Page 43
... thought unsoldierly , but he never did any- thing positively offensive , and , as he was always quiet and attended to his own affairs , we liked him well enough , but only in a negative way . " General Stokes adds that there was noth ...
... thought unsoldierly , but he never did any- thing positively offensive , and , as he was always quiet and attended to his own affairs , we liked him well enough , but only in a negative way . " General Stokes adds that there was noth ...
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... the ownership of slaves within its borders . For the first time thousands of easy - going people realized that the country was already divided into two sections with modes of thought that were utterly antagonistic to.
... the ownership of slaves within its borders . For the first time thousands of easy - going people realized that the country was already divided into two sections with modes of thought that were utterly antagonistic to.
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