A Tour Around the World by General Grant: Being a Narrative of the Incidents and Events of His Journey Through Great Britain Ireland Belgium the German Empire Switzerland France Egypt the Holy Land Turkey Greece Italy Holland Denmark Nor

Excerpt from A Tour Around the World by General Grant: Being a Narrative of the Incidents and Events of His Journey Through Great Britain Ireland Belgium the German Empire Switzerland France Egypt the Holy Land Turkey Greece Italy Holland Denmark Norway Sweden Russia Spain Portugal India<br><br>During the progress of his journey the movements of Gen eral Grant were reported regularly in the various newspapers of the United States and were followed closely by his fellow citizens. SO great was this popular interest that one of the leading journals Of the country sent its most able correspondent to travel with him and report the record of his daily life abroad. These reports however coming at intervals of greater or less extent were naturally disconnected and there is a universal and recognized demand for a connected and continuous narrative of this great journey which shall give in a more extended form than was possible in newspaper correspondence an account Of General Grant''s travels and such information concerning the places he visited and the persons he met as may be necessary to a proper understanding Of the story. Such a work is Offered to the public in the present volume in which the movements of General Grant are related day by day from the time he left Philadelphia for Liverpool until his arrival at San Francisco.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.