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Grant Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (573 words) |
 | Grant was born on June 6, 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri. |
 | Grant left Blue Note again in 1974 and the subsequent recordings he made with other labels are usually described as "commercial". |
 | Grant spent much of 1978 in hospital and, against the advice of doctors, went back on the road to earn some money. |
| Ulysses S. Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (7086 words) |
 | Grant was initially angry at Thomas that his orders for a demonstration were exceeded, but the assaulting wave sent the Confederates into a head-long retreat, opening the way for the Union to invade Atlanta, Georgia, and the heart of the Confederacy. |
 | Grant was the first general to attempt such a coordinated strategy in the war and the first to understand the concepts of total war, in which the destruction of an enemy's economic infrastructure that supplied its armies was as important as tactical victories on the battlefield. |
 | Grant's commitment to fl civil rights can be easily seen by his address to Congress in 1875 and by his attempt to use the annexation of Santo Domingo as leverage to force white supremacists to accept fls as part of the southern political polity. |