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Intresting Facts About Ulysses S Grant
Ulysses S Grant was born on April 27, 1822. He was the eighteenth president of the United States. He was also the commander of all Union forces during the Civil War. After the Civil War ended, Grant became the Secretary of War. |
Here are some interesting facts about Ulysses S. Grant:
- Ulysses S Grant was one of the three presidents who graduated from West Point Military Academy.
- He finished writing his memoirs a few weeks before succumbing to cancer. The memoirs were sold for $500,000 by the family after he died.
- Once when Ulysses Grant was driving his horse too fast, he was stopped and fined $20. He was the president at that time.
- His was christened Hiram Ulysses Grant but did not want to have the initials H.U.G. when entering West Point. So, he changed his name.
- Grant was related to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland and Hollywood actress Judy Garland.
- Everyday he ate one cucumber soaked in vinegar.
- During the Civil War, Grant had seen so much blood that he could not stomach the sight of blood. He never ate rare steak as it nauseated him.
- Grant used to smoke around 7 to 10 cigars a day. Once when a reporter wrote a piece about him that he like cigars, he received over 20,000 of them from different people.
- Ten years after leaving the office of the president, Grant got cancer of the throat. He used to swab his throat everyday with cocaine that as a result he got addicted to it.
- Grant's nickname during childhood was Useless.
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 Ulysses Grant was born on April 27, 1822 in a humble family. He got a recommendation from a member of Congress from his father's district that got him into West Point Military Academy. Although Grant did not want to join the academy, he did so and was quite average, graduating in the middle of the class. More..
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