Word: grant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fiske traced the development of the war from its beginning in the western border states to Grant's great victories on the Mississippi, and pointed out the logical order of the events which finally culminated in his triumph over Lee in the east. There, it was largely through Lee's personal ability that the Union advance was so long checked, but in the course of western events the true balance between the resources and the energy of either side can be observed...
Polk had attempted to get control of the Ohio river, but here Grant made his first appearance, and with characteristic promptness, occupied Cairo and Poducale, effectually keeping control of the Ohio and also of the Tennessee and the Cumberland. These two rivers made aneasy point of attack upon the Confederate line, as Grant was soon to show...
...Schouler, I. ch. IV.- (b) By our conduct toward the Barbary Powers: Schouler, II, 16, 17, 18.- (c) By President Jackson's attitude in regard to the French Spoliation Claims: Schouler, IV, 239 et. seq.- (d) By our attitude toward the French in Mexico.- (e) By President Grant's course in regard to the Alabama Claims: Blaine, Twenty Years in Congress, II, ch. 20.- (f) By the foreign policy of General Harrison's administration.- (1) In the Barrundia case.- (2) In the Samoan case.- (3) In the New Orleans case: Hawley, Forum, XIII...
...From there the men ran up Garden street to the Cambridge clay pits, through Concord avenue to Fresh Pond then across the country to Mt. Auburn and return by way of Brattle and Craigie streets. The finish was made in front of the Law School at 4.22 p. m. Grant '99 was the first man to finish and 1m. 39s. afterwards Blakemore and Foote came in. The race between these two was very exciting but Blakemore won by about half a yard. Putnam, Prall and Tobey finished after the first three men in the above order. The time...
...darkness, and the pack of 17 turned back to Cambridge, reaching home an hour and forty minutes after the start. A. Ingersoll '96, was first, H. W. Foote '97, second, and F. L. Waldo '98, third. The first two were close together. Fourteen minutes later, the hares, D. Grant, Sp., and A. W. Blakemore '98, appeared, having run around the reservoirs, through Brookline and into Copley Square by way of Huntington avenue, and home by the Harvard Bridge. The distance covered was about fourteen miles, but the men finished in good condition...