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Les pompiers de New-york et la ville dès 1851, il y a 160 ans.
PAR BERNARD VASSOR
mise à jour le 11 septembre 2011.
News of USA as of May 13 we learn that at that time two issues occupied North America: the separation of South Carolina, and plans for a new attack against Cuba.(...) Along s'accomplisait in New York, "the steamer Washinton", France bitten the game, trying to awaken from its torpor, it organized the French line of steam from Le Havre to New York, that the "Franklin" has opened recently.The first steam French, by a strange coincidence, arrived in New York about the same time that "Washington" came out.He had been to France, to arm and send a building "built everything," longer than the Americans to form a company, raise millions of dollars, put on construction sites, launch and set off one of the largest and best vapor that they had seen to date.
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General (Hiram) Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) , had just been elected 18th President of the UNITED STATES. Nothing in his youth destined to do this function.His mother used to say that we should call it " Useless "(useless). He entered the military academy West Point, he took out a second lieutenant in 1843. He then vegetation without obtaining a promotion. Having descended into alcohol and depression, he resigned from the army and opened a small tannery. The Civil War made him return to duty. He then showed up to the circumstances and rose through the ranks of the military hierarchy. Achieving decisive victories that made his fame. Returning to civilian life, he stood wreathed in its former glory, and went up after turbulent elections the highest step in American democracy, the Republican candidate for election as: Presidency of the Republic of States United on 20 May 1868.
Some historians consider him the worst of Presidents of the United States because of scandals around him and himself were involved in the case of fraud to whiskey distilleries where his private secretary was involved in misappropriation of 3 million dollars. His Secretary of War, he was convinced in an investigation, to have received bribes in the sale of wine merchant countertop with the Indians. It is in spite of "these cases" re-elected in 1872.
After his two terms, he went with a partner a Ponzi scheme . Only his partner was sentenced to 10 years in prison. We do not condemn a former
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