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Print shows President Ulysses S. Grant posed on a horse ... In a letter to his wife Julia — while stationed in Fort Vancouver after the Mexican-American War — Grant denounces how Native ...
Ulysses S. Grant Launched an Illegal War Against the Plains Indians, Then Lied About It ... In his Personal Memoirs, he damned the Mexican War, in which he had fought, ...
But before they could marry, Ulysses went off to war for the first time. In later years, Grant wrote that the Mexican War was "one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation." ...
The Mexican-American War: Photos from the 1800s show a young nation's conflict Prominent American Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Stonewall Jackson were among those who ...
Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president ... He participated in nearly every major battle of the Mexican-American War - including the capture of Mexico City in 1847.
Even Ulysses S. Grant, the greatest military leader of the war years, manages to go behind a cloud of corruption and indifference when he succeeds Johnson in the presidency in 1869.
The war hero, once ranked among the worst U.S. presidents but whose reputation is on the upswing, may be promoted to the rank of General of the Armies under the fiscal 2023 defense authorization bill.