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Ulysses Grant

noun

18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885). Synonyms: Grant, Hiram Ulysses Grant, President Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant.

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... one person in Watauga, however, to whom Mary Louise wrote, and from whom she received letters regularly—Ulysses Grant Payson, the washerwoman's son, with whom she had gone to school. Grant Payson was a sober, ambitious, industrious fellow, who seemed to feel from childhood the weight of responsibility for his people. A widow's only boy, he had ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine

... de deux costes l'espace de deux heures. Enfin Dieu par sa grace voulut que la victoire demeura de more coste." Such were the simple words in which Maurice announced to his cousin Lewis William his victory in the most important battle that had been fought for half a century. Not even General Ulysses Grant could be more modest in the hour of ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... Ulysses Grant, the Commander of the Union forces in the Civil War, was the grandson of Captain Grant, who served with "Light Horse Harry" Lee during the Revolution; and Robert Lee, the Confederate General, was "Light ...

— On the Trail of Grant and Lee • Frederick Trevor Hill

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