The Life and Travels of General Grant ...Hubbard bros., 1879 - 599 páginas This work is a complete account of the life and public career of General Grant. It describes his celebrated tour around the world. |
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Términos y frases comunes
advance American amid army arrival artillery Bangkok battle beautiful boat carriage carried Chattanooga cheer Chefoo China Chinese columns command crowd dinner Egypt emperor enemy entered feel feet fire flags force Fort Donelson friends Government grand Grand Gulf Grant replied guest gun-boats guns Halleck head-quarters hills honor horses hour hundred Japan Japanese khedive king land latter Loochoo look mayor McClellan McClernand ment mikado miles military Milliken's Bend Ming dynasty minister Missionary Ridge morning moved Nagasaki nations never night o'clock officers once palace party passed present President Prince Kung reached rebel received reception Richmond river road ruins salute seemed seen sent Sherman shore Siam side smoke soldiers soon speech steamer stood streets temple thing thousand tion Tokio took town traveler troops Vandalia vessels viceroy Vicksburg walls Yokohama
Pasajes populares
Página 176 - There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory— when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption,— barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Página 362 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Página 369 - Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Página 172 - tis haunted, holy ground, No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon: Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Página 213 - Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Página 161 - I believe you are as brave, patriotic, and just as the great prototype, Washington ; as unselfish, kind-hearted, and honest as a man should be, but the chief characteristic is the simple faith in success you have always manifested, which I can liken to nothing else than the faith a Christian has in a Savior.
Página 159 - ... and decisive successes achieved over the enemy. In a short time you have recovered from him the control of the Tennessee River from Bridgeport to Knoxville. You dislodged him from his great stronghold upon Lookout Mountain, drove him from Chattanooga Valley, wrested from his determined grasp the possession of Missionary Ridge, repelled with heavy loss to him his repeated assaults upon Knoxville, forcing him to raise the siege there, driving him at all points, utterly routed and discomfited, beyond...
Página 166 - The armies in the east and west acted independently and without concert, like a balky team, no two ever pulling together, enabling the enemy to use to great advantage his interior lines of communication for transporting troops from east to west...
Página 161 - There are many officers to whom these remarks are applicable to a greater or less degree, proportionate to their ability as soldiers, but what I want is to express my thanks to you and McPherson as the men to whom, above all others, I feel indebted for whatever I have had of success.
Página 576 - In a Republic like ours, where the citizen is the sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign— the people— should possess intelligence. The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us a free Nation...
Referencias a este libro
The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and ... Harry James Maihafer Vista de fragmentos - 1998 |
The Forgotten "Stonewall of the West": Major General John Stevens Bowen Phillip Thomas Tucker Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |