Grant's Tour Around the World: With Incidents of His Journey Through England, Ireland, Scotland ...Forshee & McMakin, 1880 - 802 pages |
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... SHIP - BUILDING ON THE CLYDE . . 117 TRAFALGAR SQUARE . . 121 PALACE OF THE TUILERIES AND LOUVRE , PARIS . 125 PALAIS DU CORPS LEGISLATIF , PARIS • 139 PALACE OF FONTAINEBLEAU , PARIS 147 · A DISTANT VIEW OF VESUVIUS . BATTLE OF MOUNT ...
... SHIP - BUILDING ON THE CLYDE . . 117 TRAFALGAR SQUARE . . 121 PALACE OF THE TUILERIES AND LOUVRE , PARIS . 125 PALAIS DU CORPS LEGISLATIF , PARIS • 139 PALACE OF FONTAINEBLEAU , PARIS 147 · A DISTANT VIEW OF VESUVIUS . BATTLE OF MOUNT ...
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... ship - life , studying carefully the manners , details , and management of the steamship . During the voyage an amusing incident occurred . One of the passengers had formerly served as a soldier under Buckner , at Fort Donaldson . There ...
... ship - life , studying carefully the manners , details , and management of the steamship . During the voyage an amusing incident occurred . One of the passengers had formerly served as a soldier under Buckner , at Fort Donaldson . There ...
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... and Corporation was presented in the drawing - room . In his speech the Mayor said that he had not forgotten a similar occasion when , in 1863 , the ship Griswold brought a cargo of provisions to the suffering operatives of 47.
... and Corporation was presented in the drawing - room . In his speech the Mayor said that he had not forgotten a similar occasion when , in 1863 , the ship Griswold brought a cargo of provisions to the suffering operatives of 47.
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... ship would continue to be cultivated and long endure . Referring to some remarks relative to the British army , he said there were as many soldiers now at Aldershott as in the regular army of the United States , which had a frontier of ...
... ship would continue to be cultivated and long endure . Referring to some remarks relative to the British army , he said there were as many soldiers now at Aldershott as in the regular army of the United States , which had a frontier of ...
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... ship would turn me inside out . As a matter of fact , I was disappointed . " The General , so talkative at times , is a very different man from the Grant in office who was so recently our President . He inquires very particularly of the ...
... ship would turn me inside out . As a matter of fact , I was disappointed . " The General , so talkative at times , is a very different man from the Grant in office who was so recently our President . He inquires very particularly of the ...
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Page 56 - I had proposed to leave Liverpool immediately on arrival, and proceed to London, where I knew our Minister had made arrangements for a formal reception, and had accepted for me a few invitations of courtesy ; but what was my surprise to find nearly all the shipping in port at Liverpool decorated with flags of all nations, and from the mainmast of each the flag of the Union was most conspicuous.