Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire (Picone/WH) fido

Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire (Picone/WH) fidoby Louis L. Picone Chronicles Ulysses S. Grants transformative three year world tour, revealing his travels, encounters, and enduring legacy. In May 1877, Ulysses S. Grant, newly departed from two terms in the White House, embarked on an extraordinary three year journey that defined a pivotal moment in the Gilded Age. Driven by a lifelong passion for travel and unburdened by a fixed itinerary, Grant set out to explore the world, his wanderlust

and preserve our nation’s most inspirational places for present and future generations

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he took more ambitious measures by sending infantry to hem in Petersburg from the Appomattox River above and below the city

steam propulsion

and Dick Ewell’s Corps would soon arrive from the north

remain a lightning rod of controversy

well-established notions of duty or disobedience

enlisted on both sides

and the rest of his life

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brokering peace with hostile tribes

greatly influencing the day-to-day life of soldiers and civilians