Ulysses S. Grant was the hero of his age, a brilliant general and a president with a lengthy list of accomplishments, especially regarding civil rights and the economy. In fact, in his own time, he not only reached celebrity status in America, but inspired the highest esteem in leaders and warriors around the world, from Europe to Asia.
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“We all know how vast your influence must be, not only upon your people at home, but upon all nations, who know what you have done,” Prince Kung, son of the Chinese emperor, said to Grant when begging the former president’s advice and assistance in China’s domestic and foreign troubles. Whether he was in England, Germany, Thailand, China, or Japan, crowds gathered to see
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